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Auschwitz was located in Poland.   From Wiki:


*Auschwitz concentration camp* was a network of
concentration<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camps>
 and extermination camps
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extermination_camp> built
and operated by the Third Reich <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Reich>
 in Polish areas annexed by Nazi
Germany<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_areas_annexed_by_Nazi_Germany>
during
World War II. It was the largest of the German concentration camps,
consisting of Auschwitz I (the *Stammlager* or base camp); Auschwitz
II–Birkenau (the *Vernichtungslager* orextermination
camp<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extermination_camp>
); Auschwitz 
III–Monowitz<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monowitz_concentration_camp>,
also known as Buna–Monowitz (a labor camp); and 45 satellite
camps.[1]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp#cite_note-krakowski-0>

Auschwitz had for a long time been a German name for
Oświęcim<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%C5%9Bwi%C4%99cim>,
the town by and around which the camps were located; the name "Auschwitz"
was made the official name again by the Germans after they invaded
Poland<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Poland_(1939)> in
September 1939. Birkenau, the German translation of
*Brzezinka<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brzezinka>
* (= "birch tree"), referred originally to a small Polish village that was
destroyed by the Germans to make way for the camp.

Auschwitz II–Birkenau was designated by the
*Reichsführer-SS<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichsf%C3%BChrer-SS>
* Heinrich Himmler <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Himmler>,
Germany's Minister of the Interior, as the place of the "final solution of
the Jewish question in Europe <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Solution>".
>From early 1942 until late 1944, transport trains delivered Jews to the
camp's gas chambers from all over Nazi-occupied
Europe<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupied_Europe>
.[2]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp#cite_note-gutman-1>
The
camp's first commandant, Rudolf
Höss<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_H%C3%B6ss>,
testified after the war at the Nuremberg
Trials<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Trials> that
up to three million people had died there (2.5 million gassed, and 500,000
from disease and
starvation),[3]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp#cite_note-International_Military_Tribunal_1946.2C_Page_251-2>
a
figure since revised to 1.3 million, around 90 percent of them
Jews.[4]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp#cite_note-auschwitz.org1-3>
[5]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp#cite_note-piper-4>Others
deported to Auschwitz included 150,000
Poles<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poles>,
23,000 Roma <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roma_(Romani_subgroup)> and
Sinti<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinti>,
15,000Soviet prisoners of
war<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_crimes_against_Soviet_POWs>,
some 400 Jehovah's
Witnesses<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehovah%27s_Witnesses> and
tens of thousands of people of diverse
nationalities.[6]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp#cite_note-dccam-5>
[7]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp#cite_note-auschwitz-6>
Those
not killed in the gas chambers died of starvation, forced labor, infectious
disease <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infectious_disease>, individual
executions, and medical
experiments.[8]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp#cite_note-piper1-7>

On January 27, 1945, Auschwitz was liberated by Soviet
troops<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army>,
a day commemorated around the world as International Holocaust Remembrance
Day <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Holocaust_Remembrance_Day>.
In 1947, Poland founded a museum on the site of Auschwitz I and II, which
by 2010 had seen 29 million visitors—1,300,000 annually—pass through the
iron gates crowned with the infamous motto, *Arbeit macht
frei<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbeit_macht_frei>
* ("work makes 
free").[3]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp#cite_note-International_Military_Tribunal_1946.2C_Page_251-2>


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