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What did the prisoners never realize or come to know about Auschwitz

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Answer:

That there were gas chambers in the camp itself.

Step-by-step explanation:

  • By the time Soviet troops landed on its soil, on January 27, 1945, 1.1 million people were killed in Auschwitz, mostly Jews.
  • In May 1940, Auschwitz became the place where political prisoners were imprisoned. As the war continued and the Holocaust spread, the Nazi regime further developed the camp.
  • Auschwitz is actually a complex of as many as 40 concentration and destruction camps. The main camp is Auschwitz I, not far from Krakow, then Auschwitz II-Birkenau, three kilometers from the first, and Auschwitz III, a forced labor camp with numerous factories where inmates worked.
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