Visual Timeline: Auschwitz

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1940 CE  
 
 
1940 CE - 1945 CE: The Nazi Auschwitz concentration camp is in operation.
 
1942 CE: The Nazi-run Auschwitz camp begins to mass-murder Jewish and other prisoners using gas chambers.
 
1943 CE: Josef Mengele joins the medical staff at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
 
 
1944 CE: A group of prisoners at the Nazi Auschwitz death camp manage to damage one of the gas chambers.
 
 
1945 CE: Armed forces of the USSR liberate the Nazi Auschwitz concentration camps.
 
 
 
 
 
1940 CE