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Who ordered the establishment of Auschwitz I?
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Auschwitz
The entrance gates to the Auschwitz concentration camp, near Kraków, Poland; the sign reads “Arbeit Macht Frei” (“Work Liberates”).
Heinrich Himmler, the chief of the SS, ordered the establishment of Auschwitz I on April 27, 1940.1