Auschwitz—this is the infamous wartime camp in Poland where the Germans are said to have killed at least one million Jews in homicidal gas chambers, misusing the insecticide called "Zyklon B." Auschwitz has become a buzzword for the Holocaust. It is said to have been the epicenter of this mother of all genocides. Here, the Germans are said to have employed their engineering ingenuity in order to mass murder their helpless victims in an industrial fashion with the highest efficiency possible. First they were shoved into chemical slaughterhouses by the thousands, then their corpses were burned in rapid sequence in crematory ovens
But does that story stand up to scrutiny? This video looks into some of the common claims made by survivors about what happened at Auschwitz.
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