Auschwitz blueprints go on display in Berlin

A set of blueprints for the Auschwitz concentration camp were found by chance in a Berlin apartment last year. They have now gone on display in Berlin. Dated 1941 and 1942, they include include a gas chamber and a crematorium.
A set of blueprints for the Auschwitz concentration camp were found by chance in a Berlin apartment last year. They have now gone on display in Berlin. Dated 1941 and 1942, they include include a gas chamber and a crematorium.
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"The exhibition gives a shocking insight into the abyss," Former Polish Foreign Minister Wladislav Bartoszewski said in a speech, "even if the objects on display seem harmless. Or maybe precisely because of that. There are blueprints, building instructions. Technical drawings. Calculations and maps."

"The horrific thing about them lies in their systematic nature. In their cold perfectionism. In their professional quality. The plans of Auschwitz shake the soul of every thinking and feeling individual because they're the expression of an inhumanity created by humans. They are the construction plans of true hell."

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