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The evil of Auschwitz laid bare
JULIA BARD reports from a Unite Against Fascism educational tour of the notorious nazi death camp in Poland
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AT THE edge of the former concentration and death camp at Auschwitz is a suburban 1930s villa with a carefully tended garden — the kind of house a well-off middle-class family might aspire to in any European town.
This was the home of Rudolf Hoess, commandant of Auschwitz, who transformed the Polish army barracks there into a huge prison and extermination camp, primarily for the industrialised murder of Jews and Gypsies.
Here Hoess lived with his wife and children, and this is where his fifth child, a daughter, was born — just a few metres from a crematorium where prisoners killed en masse by cyanide gas were incinerated.
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