Nazi German forces murdered more than 1 million people at Auschwitz, a Nazi-run death camp built in a region of southern Poland under German occupation during World War II.

On January 27, Germany commemorates the victims of the Nazi dictatorship. Today, the country's memory culture has become one enshrined in routines, but also with misunderstandings and in need of ...

The German authorities founded the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1940 in the Polish town of Oswiecim after their invasion of Poland in 1939. Early on it was a camp for Polish prisoners, ...

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In 7th grade history, Kai Höss learned that his grandfather, Rudolf Höss, was Nazi SS officer and Auschwitz commandant who was responsible for the deaths of 1.1 million people, mostly Jews.

Pope Benedict XVI walks through the gate of Auschwitz, a World War II death camp run by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland, with a sign above reading in German “Work will set you free,” in 2006.

The German authorities founded the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1940 in the Polish town of Oswiecim after their invasion of Poland in 1939. Early on it was a camp for Polish prisoners, ...

The German authorities founded the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1940 in the Polish town of Oswiecim after their invasion of Poland in 1939. Early on it was a camp for Polish prisoners, ...

The German authorities founded the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1940 in the Polish town of Oswiecim after their invasion of Poland in 1939. Early on it was a camp for Polish prisoners, ...

Auschwitz the labor and death camp. The German authorities founded the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1940 in the Polish town of Oswiecim after their invasion of Poland in 1939.