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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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The July 20, 1944, Plot to Assassinate Adolf HitlerArticle
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