The Holocaust - Auschwitz concentration camp

Time: 1943

Place: Poland

Details: By 1943, it was evident to the armed forces' leadership that Germany was losing the war. The mass murder continued nevertheless, reaching a "frenetic" pace in 1944 when Auschwitz gassed nearly 500,000 people.

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