Selection on the ramp at Auschwitz Birkenau, 1944 (Auschwitz Album) 1b, illustrating Nazi Germany

"Selection" of Hungarian Jews on the ramp at Auschwitz-II-Birkenau in German-occupied Poland, May/June 1944, during the final phase of the Holocaust. Jews were sent either to work or to the gas chamber. The photograph is part of the collection known as the Auschwitz Album , which was donated to Yad Vashem by Lili Jacob, a survivor, who found it in the Mittel Bernhard Walter. Public domain.

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Nazi Germany: The Essentials

Answer ten clear questions about the people, events and ideas that shaped Nazi Germany, with a historical explanation after every answer.

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