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Auschwitz and Birkenau

Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp opens

14th June 1940

Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp opens in Nazi controlled Poland with Polish POWs, later expanded to include civilian Jews and gypsies (approx. 3 million would die within its walls)

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