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Auschwitz concentration camp: The center of Nazi Holocaust

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January 26, 2025

Eighty years ago, on January 27, 1945, the Soviet army reached Auschwitz. How did its concentration and extermination camps become the epitome of the Holocaust, genocide, and inhumanity?

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