Detail of post supporting electric barbed wire fence and lamp, Auschwitz concentration camp, Oswiecim, Malopolska, Poland.

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Established in April 1940 in the pre war Polish army barracks originally as a labour camp, though subsequently "repurposed" as an extermination camp.

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Size: 3680px × 4748px
Location: Auschwitz concentration camp, Oswiecim, Malopolska, Poland.
Photo credit: © Leslie Garland / LGPL / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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