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Auschwitz concentration camp

1940–1945 · 20th century · Also known as Auschwitz-Birkenau

Auschwitz was the largest Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, built from 1940 near the Polish town of Oświęcim, which the Germans called Auschwitz. About 1.1 million people were murdered there, around a million of them Jews, most in the gas chambers of Auschwitz II–Birkenau. More than 400,000 Hungarian Jews were deported there in 1944. Soviet troops liberated it on 27 January 1945.

Auschwitz concentration camp
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Kingdom of Hungary (1920-1946)Reichskommissariat Norwegen

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Auschwitz concentration camp. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/auschwitz-concentration-camp
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