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Auschwitz-Birkenau was an extermination camp.
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Is it true that Auschwitz-Birkenau was an extermination camp?
Yes. Multiple reference works and book records explicitly list Auschwitz-Birkenau among the Nazi extermination (death) camps, and several scientific and scholarly items incidentally describe it as a former concentration and extermination camp.
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Extermination camp. (n.d.). en.wikipedia.org. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extermination_camp
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Auschwitz concentration camp. (n.d.). en.wikipedia.org. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp
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Wikipedia: Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Foundation. (n.d.). en.wikipedia.org. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz-Birkenau_Memorial_Foundation
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Simple English Wikipedia: Auschwitz concentration camp. (n.d.). simple.wikipedia.org. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp
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Muzykalia w zbiorach Państwowego Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau. (2017). doi.org. https://doi.org/10.4467/23537094kmmuj.17.007.7836
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Nowicka-Krawczyk, P., Żelazna-Wieczorek, J., Otlewska, A., Koziróg, A., Rajkowska, K., Piotrowska, M., Gutarowska, B., & Żydzik-Białek, A. (2014). Diversity of an aerial phototrophic coating of historic buildings in the former Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp.. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.05.113
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Musical sources survived in the Collection of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. (2017). doi.org. https://doi.org/10.4467/23537094kmmuj.17.014.7843
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Otlewska, A., Adamiak, J., & Gutarowska, B. (2015). Clone-based comparative sequence analysis of 16S rRNA genes retrieved from biodeteriorating brick buildings of the former Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp.. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.syapm.2014.09.003
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Gendarmes, bureaucrats, and Jews: a documentary history of the destruction of Hungary's Jews, spring-summer 1944. (2026). degruyterbrill.com. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781836951148
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Varon‑Vassard, O. (2017). Voix de femmes. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.4000/ceb.8528
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