Auschwitz crematorium. The four gas chambers and crematoria constructed at Auschwitz-Birkenau after 1942 represent Nazi mass murder in its most industrialized form. Each of the four facilities could kill and incinerate more than 1,000 victims per day. About one

million Jews and thousands of non-Jewish victims were killed at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

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Women in the barracks of the newly liberated Auschwitz concentration camp.

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Adolf Hitler is considered to be perhaps the most villainous man of the twentieth century. His vile and ruthless deeds are common knowledge. In fact, the name Hitler has now become synonymous with evil. What many often forget, however, is that Hitler was not only a coldblooded tyrant but that also a brilliant persuader of men. He personally oversaw the deaths of millions of people, including the near extermination of the Jewish race while maintaining the full support of the German people.

Holocaust Survivor Shows Tattoo: Polish-born Holocaust survivor Meyer Hack shows his prisoner number tattooed on his arm.

During the Holocaust, concentration camp prisoners received tattoos only at one location, the Auschwitz concentration camp complex, which consisted of Auschwitz I (Main Camp), Auschwitz II (Auschwitz-Birkenau), and Auschwitz III (Monowitz and the subcamps).

Incoming prisoners were assigned a camp serial number which was sewn to their prison uniforms. Only those prisoners selected for work were issued serial numbers; those prisoners sent directly to the gas chambers were not registered and received no tattoos.

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Prisoners during a roll call at the Buchenwald concentration camp. Their uniforms bear classifying triangular badges and identi�cation numbers. Buchenwald, Germany, 1938-1941.

Child survivors at Auschwitz still taken from footage recorded by Soviet forces.

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An entrance gate with the words "Arbeit Macht Frei" ("Work Brings Freedom") at Dachau concentration camp.

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A few of the thousands of wedding rings the Nazis removed from their victims to salvage the gold. U.S. troops found rings, watches, precious stones, eyeglasses, and gold �llings, near the Buchenwald concentration camp. Germany, May 5, 1945.

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