Why did Auschwitz happen?

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“Why did Auschwitz happen? Why? I don’t have an answer to that. How, I know.”

— Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize winner and Holocaust survivor

The terror at Auschwitz was both systematic and indiscriminate. The Germans murdered 1.1 million people at the extermination camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. Most of the victims were Jewish. They were…

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