Auschwitz After 65 Years

Women in the barracks at Auschwitz, Poland, January 1945
Galerie Bilderwelt / Getty

Horrific Conditions
Women in the barracks at Auschwitz in January 1945. Heinrich Himmler, Germany's Minister of the Interior, designated the camp as the locus of the "final solution of the Jewish question in Europe."

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