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

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

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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.

Insight I

Auschwitz-Birkenau preserves extensive evidence of the Holocaust, with a structured and systematic process of extermination.

Insight II

Between 1940 and 1945, at least 1.1 million people were killed here, approximately 90% of whom were Jews. The rest included ethnic Poles, Roma and Sinti, Soviet prisoners of war, and others.

Insight III

The gate to Auschwitz I bears the infamous slogan Arbeit macht frei ("Work sets you free").