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The Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp

From the end of 1941, a new camp had been built in the so-called "Auschwitz area of interest" of the SS. It was located three kilometers away from the existing Auschwitz concentration camp. Starting in March 1942, people were murdered by poison gas in two former farmhouses in Birkenau. Author: ZDF/

The gas chambers in Auschwitz-Birkenau

In March 1943, the first of four large murder facilities went into operation in Auschwitz-Birkenau. The processes in these newly built gas chambers were thought out down to the last detail. Author: ZDF/Winfried Laasch, Friedrich Scherer/Kawom! Translation and redub: alugha Click here to see more