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Auschwitz: 70 years since concentration camps liberated | Auschwitz: 70 years since concentration camps liberated |
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Seventy years ago, the concentration camps of Auschwitz in German-occupied Poland were liberated from Nazi control. | |
More than one million people, mostly Jews, were murdered between 1940 and 1945, making it the site of the largest mass execution of human beings ever recorded. | |
BBC News explores what the Allies found on liberation, and what remains of the site today. | |
Footage from British Pathe and the US National Archive. | |
If you are unable to watch, here is some of the content included in this interactive video. |