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they did. Several hundred inmates learned in October 1944 that they were to be killed and rose up against the Nazis, killing three guards. They also blew up one of the crematoriums and a gas chamber with explosives smuggled in by inmates who were used as forced labor at an arms factory.

The Nazis crushed the uprising, killing almost everyone who was involved. The women who smuggled the explosives into the camp were hanged in public.

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The revolt only included some 400 of the Sonderkommando. Unfortunately the resistance group of the main camp, with whom the SK had been planning a revolt for the previous few months, refused to join in as knew that the Soviets were not far away.

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