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Germany's darkest chapter: Auschwitz and the Holocaust

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January 27, 2026

On January 27, 1945, soldiers of the Red Army reached the Auschwitz concentration camps. 81 years on, the victims of the Nazi regime's industrialized mass murder still call for remembrance — beginning at Auschwitz.

January 27 marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day, honoring the victims of the Nazi regime.

Auschwitz, operated by Nazi Germany and located in today's Poland, was the largest complex of concentration and extermination camps in Europe.

It has come to stand as the central symbol of the Holocaust, genocide, and inhumanity. At least 1.1 million people were murdered there, more than 900,000 of them Jews.

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