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Auschwitz: Auschwitz Ii
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Auschwitz II (Birkenau, pronounced BERK-IN-NOW) was another part of the complex. Many people know this simply by the name of "Auschwitz". Here Nazi Germany killed over one million people, mostly Jews, poles and gypsies.
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Clearly, the only thing that seperates Auschwitz from what the Allies did is the concept of exterminations, of genocide, of homicidal gas chambers. If you remove the exterminations from the Auschwitz equation, you are left with a tragedy, yes, but not a unique tragedy-- a war crime that was duplicated by the Allies during World War II.
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February 26, 1943 The first transport of Roma (Gypsies) from Germany arrives at Auschwitz. The SS authorities house them in Section B-IIe of Auschwitz-Birkenau, which becomes known as the "Gypsy family camp." By the end of 1943 more than 18,000 Roma (Gypsies) will have been incarcerated in the so-called family camp and as many as 23,000 Gypsies deported to the Auschwitz camp complex.
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The pope met a group of Auschwitz survivors, and then stopped in front of the infamous "Wall of Death," where thousands were executed. He stopped in a museum at Auschwitz, where he signed a book of remembrance. He ... visited the cell of St. Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish priest who died in the camp after volunteering to take the place of an inmate slated for execution and who was later canonized by John Paul II.
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The eight-metre wooden cross was erected in 1979 outside the Auschwitz camp perimeter near a spot where the Nazis shot Polish political prisoners. Polish-born Pope John Paul II once celebrated a mass beneath it.
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