Auschwitz Opens

MAY 20 1940 · 12:00

Auschwitz Opens

May 20, 1940. The first concentration-camp inmates arrive at Auschwitz — initially a Polish-political-prisoner camp; expanded into the largest Nazi death camp 1941-42. 1.1 million people killed; ~960,000 of them Jews.

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