Auschwitz

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Auschwitz was the largest Nazi concentration and extermination camp complex during World War II, located in occupied Poland. Established in 1940, it expanded into three main camps: Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, and Auschwitz III-Monowitz. It became the central site of the Holocaust, where over 1.1 million people, mostly Jews, were murdered through gas chambers, starvation, forced labor, and medical experiments. The concentration camp was liberated by the Soviet Red Army in January 1945.