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Auschwitz
Auschwitz was selected to be the site of the first concentration camp in occupied Poland because of its central location near a major railroad junction and because there was already a military camp there with usable buildings. " The former kilometers from Cracow". (www.wsg-hist.uni-linz.ac.at/Auschwitz/HTML/Allgem-Infos.html) This location was favorably situated as reguards to transport facilities. This location was also large ....
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.... had 405,000 prisoners recorded through executions, beatings, starvation, and sickness.The camp was staffed partly by prisoners, some of which were selected to be Kapos and Sonderkommandos. Some of the prisoners survived through the help of some others. Of the 405,000 registrere at the Auschwitz complex, 65,00 survived. Out of the 16,000 soviet POW's only 96 survived. From various estimates suggest 1.6 million were murdered. (www.members.dencity.com ....
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