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Auschwitz was a death camp that was built in 1940 for the express use of extermination of the Jewish people, today it is a large memorial complex that has many visitors each year. It was very significant in the ways that it killed many Jews and increased the death toll VERY significantly.

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Actually, when Auschwitz opened in May 1940 it was a very harsh concentration camp for Polish intellectuals ... Jews only started arriving in large numbers from March 1942 on. It became an extermination camp.

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