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Auschwitz concentration camp

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1 ________  : Operation Reinhard • Auschwitz • Belzec • Chelmno • Majdanek • Sobibor • Treblinka

2 On January 27, 1945, Auschwitz was liberated by Soviet troops, a day commemorated around the world as ________.

3 After the war Auschwitz 1 and/or its guards' quarters served until 1947 as an ________ and MBP prison camp.

4 The most infamous doctor at Auschwitz was ________, known as the "Angel of Death".

5 Only in the Lager [camp] was the restraint from below non-existent, and the power of these small ________ absolute.

6 ________, then a subsidiary of IG Farben, bought prisoners to use as guinea pigs for testing new drugs.

7 Hirt committed suicide in Schonenbach, ________, on June 2, 1945 with a gunshot to the head.

8 Where is Auschwitz concentration camp?

9 Carl Clauberg injected chemicals into women's ________ in an effort to glue them shut.

10 They attacked the ________ with makeshift weapons: stones, axes, hammers, other work tools and homemade grenades.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • as the SS struggled to keep up sorting the valuables plundered from prisoners at Auschwitz, Karl Möckel stated that fifteen to twenty suitcases of them were sent to the WVHA quarterly?
  • Ruth Maier, an Austrian Jew who found refuge in Norway until her deportation and death at Auschwitz in 1942, has been called "Norway's Anne Frank"?
  • despite jointly murdering at least 1,000 inmates at Auschwitz, former SS-Unterscharführer Oswald Kaduk earned the nickname "Papa Kaduk" among patients at the hospital he worked at after the war?
  • due to standing among corpses in his coat and rubber gloves while holding a syringe, SS-Oberscharführer Josef Klehr has been described as the ultimate caricature of the omnipotent Auschwitz doctor?
  • with the exception of three snapshots taken by Sonderkommandos, the Auschwitz Album is the only extant photographic evidence of the inner workings of the Auschwitz concentration camp?
  • the Związek Organizacji Wojskowej, a Polish resistance group inside the Auschwitz concentration camp, provided the first intelligence about the Holocaust to the Western Allies?
  • Grigol Peradze was a Georgian ecclesiastic figure who was gassed in Auschwitz?
  • Benjamin Fondane, known as a Symbolist poet in Romania, a Jewish existentialist thinker in France and an avant-garde filmmaker in Argentina, was killed at Auschwitz in late 1944?
  • Polish resistance courier Maria Kotarba became an "Angel of Auschwitz" by smuggling food and medicine, caring and cooking for Jewish prisoners in hiding?
  • Holocaust deniers have contacted former SS-Rottenführer Oskar Gröning to convince him that the things he witnessed at Auschwitz were hallucinations on his part?
  • SS-Oberscharführer Ludwig Plagge, executed for his crimes at Auschwitz, was one of the first SS men to be deployed there?
  • SS-Untersturmführer Hans Stark admitted that during the mass gassing of prisoners at Auschwitz, he inserted the Zyklon B into the gas chamber himself when a medical orderly did not turn up?
  • Arthur Dodd, a British prisoner of war during World War II, was an eye-witness to the horrors of Auschwitz?
  • Austrian socialist leader Robert Danneberg, one of the architects of 'Red Vienna', was killed in the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1942?
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