The Auschwitz Concentration Camp was a vast complex of concentration and extermination camps located near the Polish town of Oswiecim.
The Auschwitz camp complex, the largest ever built by Nazism, played a fundamental role in the project of the "final solution of the Jewish question" - the euphemism with which the Nazis indicated the extermination of Jews - rapidly becoming the most efficient extermination center. of Nazi Germany.
As the Soviet Union's Red Army approached Auschwitz in January 1945, towards the end of World War II, Nazi troops sent most of the camp's population west on a death march to other camps in Germany and Austria. Soviet troops liberated the camp on January 27, 1945, a day since 2005 commemorated as Remembrance Day.
Three main fields and 45 sub-fields were part of the complex. The area of ??interest of the camp (Interessengebiet), with ever new forced expropriations and demolitions of the properties of the resident inhabitants, came to cover, from December 1941, the total area of ??about 40 square kilometers.
Within this area there were also some model farms, agricultural and breeding, personally wanted by Hitler, in which the deportees were exploited as slaves.
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