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**Auschwitz** is the name of a complex of 40 [concentration
camps](Concentration_Camp "wikilink") within
[Poland](Republic_of_Poland "wikilink") built by [Nazi
Germany](Nazi_Germany "wikilink") during [World War
II](World_War_II "wikilink") and the [Holocaust](Holocaust "wikilink")
for the purpose of [mass extermination](Mass_Killing "wikilink") of
hundreds of thousands people.

## History

### Construction

### After the War

## Mass Killings

## Resistance