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How many smaller subcamps were connected to the Auschwitz complex?
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Auschwitz
The entrance gates to the Auschwitz concentration camp, near Kraków, Poland; the sign reads “Arbeit Macht Frei” (“Work Liberates”).
The Auschwitz complex was connected to a network of 45 smaller subcamps in the region, most of which were used to house slave laborers.1