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Auschwitz: Nazis
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The trains running to Auschwitz were tracked by a special guarded IBM customer site facility at 22 Pawia in Krakow. The millions of punch cards the Nazis in Poland required were obtained exclusively from IBM, including one company print shop at 6 Rymarska Street across the street from the Warsaw Ghetto. The entire Polish subsidiary was overseen by an IBM administrative facility at 24 Kreuz in Warsaw.
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A man pays respect at the "Wall of Death" inside the former Auschwitz camp in Oswiecim May 24, 2006. Pope John Paul's trips to Poland used to be nostalgic journeys full of sweet memories of his native land. When Pope Benedict XVI visits this week, he will face a bitter reminder of his country's past - Auschwitz, the most infamous of former Nazi death camps. 24 May 2006 REUTERS/Damir Sagolj
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There are horrifying stories of Auschwitz-Birkenau and the fanatical, ruthless SS-men. And there are stories to bear witness to goodness - in Auschwitz the missionary Jane Haining refused to reject her children and showed herself to be a saint. And Oscar Schindler came to Auschwitz to save 300 Schindler-women from certain death. He managed to do it - the only shipment out of the Nazi death camp during WW2 ..
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Today, from amongst all the horrors of the Second World War, it is the name of Auschwitz that has come to symbolize the nadir that 'civilized' Europe sunk to in that era. And whilst the Nazis tried to conceal the worst aspects of the business that was done there - frantically dynamiting crematoriums and execution walls as the Allies closed in - such efforts proved futile. The evidence is plain enough for all to see.
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[W]hen Catholic bishops of the Netherlands spoke out nine years later, the Nazis retaliated by shipping Stein and other converts from Judaism to Catholicism to Auschwitz. Many Catholics say that's the very kind of retaliation the Vatican would have risked had it been more outspoken.
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Six such death camps existed: Auschwitz-Birkenau, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor, and Treblinka. Large-scale murder by gas and body disposal through cremation were conducted systematically by the Nazis and Adolf Hitler's SS men ..
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