- Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp:

French: Auschwitz Birkenau
Camp allemand nazi de concentration et d'extermination (1940-1945)

The Auschwitz Birkenau
German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp (1940-1945)
is a World Heritage site in Poland and defined by the UNESCO in 1979 and definitely a recommended cultural sightseeing location. It is on position 64 (1039, 908) in our monthly survey..

"The fortified walls, barbed wire, platforms, barracks, gallows, gas chambers and cremation ovens show the conditions within which the Nazi genocide took place in the former concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest in the Third Reich. According to historical investigations, 1.5 million people, among them a great number of Jews, were systematically starved, tortured and murdered in this camp, the symbol of humanity's cruelty to its fellow human beings in the 20th century."
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