25 nov 1944 - Demolition of Auchwitz gas chambers
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Soviet Forces advance on Germany and the Nazis realise they are not going to win the war. Chief Heinrich Himmler orders the destruction of the Auschwitz-Birkenau gas chambers and crematoria. During this SS attempt to destroy the evidence of mass killings, prisoners were forced to dismantle and dynamite the structures.
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