Warfare in Pictures Gallery
On location with BHTV: On the Driel Ferry crossing the Rhine to Oosterbeek following the course taken by 4th Dorsets as they crossed into the Airborne Perimeter on the night of 24/25 September. 'Arnhem - Battle for the Island and Evacuation'.
Posted by: Rebecca Lawther
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Dates in History
Himmler orders construction of Auschwitz
27th April 1940
SS Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler orders the construction of a concentration camp in Oswiecim, Poland.
Known as Auschwitz in German, the facility will play a central role in the Nazi plan to exterminate Europe's Jews.
Further Reading
Auschwitz Death Camp
(Paperback - 128 pages)
by Ian Baxter
The concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau was the site of the single largest mass murder in history. Over one million mainly Jewish men, women, and children were murdered in its gas chambers. Countless more died as a result of disease and starvation.
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