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The camp is infamous for its gas chambers, where the [[Nazi]]s used [[Zyklon B]] as their primary method of execution and crematoria which were then used to dispose of the bodies. The gas chamber and the crematoria, which were formerly a Polish army bunker, are still standing today.

The camp is infamous for its gas chambers, where the [[Nazi]]s used [[Zyklon B]] as their primary method of execution and crematoria which were then used to dispose of the bodies. The gas chamber and the crematoria, which were formerly a Polish army bunker, are still standing today.

Towards the end of the war the [[Nazi]]s had to cover up all the murders committed there; they evacuated all the men who could walk (about 60,000)<ref>http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/auschwitz</ref> and forced them into the last defenses of [[Germany]]. But it was not all hidden. 7,500 prisoners were liberated by the 322nd Infantry unit of the [[Red Army]] on January 27, 1945, exposing the brutality of the [[Nazi]] regime. The mass murders committed at Auschwitz represented a scale of horror unprecedented in human history and not seen ever since.  In all, between 1.1 and 1.5 million people died in the prison camp.  Ninety percent of them were Jews.  The other ten percent included about 83,000 Poles and 19,000 Roma (Gypsies).<ref>http://academic.eb.com/levels/collegiate/article/11296</ref>

Towards the end of the war the [[Nazi]]s had to cover up all the murders committed there; they evacuated all the men who could walk (about 60,000)<ref>http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/auschwitz</ref> and forced them into the last defenses of [[Germany]]. But it was not all hidden. 7,500 prisoners were liberated by the 322nd Infantry unit of the [[Red Army]] on January 27, 1945, exposing the brutality of the [[Nazi]] regime. The mass murders committed at Auschwitz represented a scale of horror unprecedented in human history and not seen ever since.  In all, between 1.1 and 1.5 million people died in the prison camp.  Ninety percent of them were Jews.  The other ten percent included about 83,000 Poles and 19,000 Roma (Gypsies).<ref>https://academic.eb.com/levels/collegiate/article/11296</ref>

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