Auschwitz Concentration Camp was originally a prison facility constructed in Occupied Poland by Nazi Germany to serve as an internment camp for Polish political prisoners before being remodeled into an extermination camp for, primarily, those of Jewish heritage.
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| - Auschwitz Concentration Camp was originally a prison facility constructed in Occupied Poland by Nazi Germany to serve as an internment camp for Polish political prisoners before being remodeled into an extermination camp for, primarily, those of Jewish heritage.
- Auschwitz concentration camp ( ) was a network of concentration and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II. It consisted of Auschwitz I (the base camp); Auschwitz II–Birkenau (the extermination camp); Auschwitz III–Monowitz (a labor camp to staff an IG Farben factory), and 45 satellite camps.
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| - Location of Auschwitz in contemporary Poland
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| - German Nazi concentration and extermination camp
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| - Remains of prisoner barracks at Auschwitz-Birkenau
- The main entrance to Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp
- Hungarian Jews not selected as laborers would be murdered in the gas chambers almost immediately after arrival. Photo from the Auschwitz Album
- Hungarian Jews on the Judenrampe after disembarking from the transport trains. To be sent rechts! – to the right – meant the person had been chosen as a laborer; links! – to the left – meant death in the gas chambers. Photo from the Auschwitz Album
- Stoves and chimneys are all that remain of many of the buildings.
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operated by
| - the Nazi Schutzstaffel , the Soviet NKVD
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| - Bundesarchiv Bild 183-N0827-318, KZ Auschwitz, Ankunft ungarischer Juden.jpg
- Aushwitz Poland.JPG
- Aushwitz- where hundreds of barns stood.JPG
- Selection Birkenau ramp.jpg
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notable books
| - If This Is a Man, Night, Man's Search for Meaning
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| - X-Men
- X-Men: First Class
- X-Men: Apocalypse
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