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Date	April 1938 - May 1945

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“Staircase of Death” at Mauthausen concentration camp

Mauthausen concentration camp, Austria

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Topics

Nazi Party political prisoner forced labour SS Jew Auschwitz Dachau Buchenwald Bergen-Belsen Sachsenhausen Theresienstadt Ravensbrück Majdanek Stutthof Belzec

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Linz

Austria

Austria

country, Europe

Key People

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Josef Kramer

Nazi commander

Germany invades Poland, September 1, 1939, using 45 German divisions and aerial attack. By September 20, only Warsaw held out, but final surrender came on September 29.

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