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Auschwitz Birkenau <br /><small>German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp (1940-1945)</small> 1
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Auschwitz Birkenau <br /><small>German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp (1940-1945)</small>

Overview

The fortified walls, barbed wire, platforms, barracks, gallows, gas chambers and cremation ovens show the conditions within which the Nazi genocide took place in the former concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest in the Third Reich. According to historical investigations, 1.5 million people, among them a great number of Jews, were systematically starved, tortured and murdered in this camp, the symbol of humanity's cruelty to its fellow human beings in the 20th century.

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Countries
Poland
ISO Codes
PL
Area
191.97 ha
Coordinates
50.0389, 19.1750
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