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The largest of its kind, the Auschwitz camp complex was essential to carrying out the Nazi plan for the "Final Solution." Auschwitz left its mark as one of the most infamous camps of the Holocaust.
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![German troops parade through Warsaw after the invasion of Poland. [LCID: 80487]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/6b473ced-71b7-474b-9519-969ed787dda8.jpg)
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![German forces enter Aachen, on the border with Belgium, following the remilitarization of the Rhineland. [LCID: 70032]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/4d587734-0984-4f9f-9d7d-5e2b5e87dacc.jpg)
