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 Auschwitz,
Konzentrationslager Auschwitz-Birkenau, KL Auschwitz is the name used
to identify the largest of the Nazi German extermination camps, along
with a number of concentration camps, comprising three main camps and
40 to 50 sub-camps. The name is derived from the German name for the nearby
town of Oswiecim, situated about 60 kilometers (37 miles) west of Kraków
(Cracow) in southern Poland. Beginning in 1940, Nazi Germany built several
concentration camps and an extermination camp in the area, which at the
time was under German occupation. The camps were a major element in the
perpetration of the Holocaust; at least 1.1 million people were killed
there, of whom over 90% were Jews |
Oswiecim-Auschwitz
concentration camp
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