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Auschwitz was a cluster of camps. Some were slave labor camps with slaves from many different backgrounds worked, and where many were worked to death. Auschwitz II Birkenau was a death camp, devoted almost entirely to the slaughter of Jews.

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Q: Was Auschwitz just a consentration camp for Jews?
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