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The History Of Auschwitz: History And History
What were the primary uses of Auschwitz from an architectural stand point and the history and tragic event of the site in question.

Auschwitz was a place where many tragedies took place, from the most unthinkable ways of torture to ruthless cold blooded murder and prosecution.
To cover up such an inconceivable thing would be almost impossible, though an attempt to erase such a scarcely credible act of callousness would be vital to avoid facing repercussions of wrong doing.

As the Soviet Infantry advances on Auschwitz in the winter of 1944-45, they found hundreds of cadaverous prisoners of war and thousands of abandoned corpses, the remaining powerful Nazi Germans to attempt to destroy the crematoriums and gas chambers in order to cover

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