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Auschwitz
Auschwitz was selected to be the site of the first concentration camp in occupied Poland because of its central location near a major railroad junction and because there was already a military camp there with usable buildings. " The former kilometers from Cracow". (www.wsg-hist.uni-linz.ac.at/Auschwitz/HTML/Allg ....
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.... staffed partly by prisoners, some of which were selected to be Kapos and Sonderkommandos. Some of the prisoners survived through the help of some others. Of the 405,000 registrere at the Auschwitz complex, 65,00 survived. Out of the 16,000 soviet POW's only 96 survived. From various estimates suggest 1.6 million were murdered. (www.members.dencity.com/lukeworld/auschwitz/AUSmain.htm)
" The Nazis established Auschwitz in April 1940 under the direction of Heinrick Himmer chief of two Nazi organzations- the Nazi guards known as the Schutzstaffel (SS), the secret police known as the Ges ....
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