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Auschwitz and the British

When did the British government know of the true role of Auschwitz-Birkenau in the ‘Final Solution’?

Barbara Rogers | Published in History Today Volume 49 Issue 10 October 1999

"Selection" of Hungarian Jews on the ramp at Auschwitz-II-Birkenau in German-occupied Poland, May/June 1944, during the final phase of the Holocaust. Jews were sent either to work or to the gas chamber.
Hungarian Jews divided on the ramp at Auschwitz-II-Birkenau in German-occupied Poland, May or June 1944, during the final phase of the Holocaust. They were sent either to work or to the gas chamber. From the Yad Vashem Auschwitz Album.

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