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The official podcast of the Auschwitz Memorial. In the podcast "On Auschwitz," the hosts discuss the details of the history of the camp as well as our contemporary memory of this important and special place.
Auschwitz Birkenau : German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp (1940-1945)
This website includes descriptions of the camp, including maps, documents, photographs and videos.
The history of the camps begins in 1933, seven years before Auschwitz was even set up. In the wake of the Great Depression, German democracy (the Weimar Republic) was destroyed. Its place was taken by the Nazi dictatorship, led by Adolf Hitler. Although the Nazi party had lots of popular support – it gained almost 44 per cent of the vote in the last multiparty elections in March 1933 – millions of Germans still rejected it.
