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Auschwitz-Birkenau – Then and now in photos

by | 27th, February 2012

THE Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland has produced a book of photos of World War II against the same locations today. It’s called Auschwitz-Birkenau. The Place Where You Are Standing…” The victims and murderers of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps are gone. But  the place remains…

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PA PHOTOS/DPA - UK USE ONLY: Female prisoners are led away for slave work in the German Reich, at the Auschwitz concentration camp, near Krakow, Poland (undated filer). The Nazi SS had the concentration camp established in 1940 and enlarged to an extermination camp in 1941. It is believed that 2.5 to 4 million people, mostly Jews, were killed here by the Nazi regime until the end of World War II in 1945.



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