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Other camps further east, like the death camps of Treblinka, Sobibor and Auschwitz, had either been destroyed by the Germans to hide their crimes in the face of Soviet advances or emptied of their inmates.

Headlines called the ranch an “extermination camp,” home to underground “crematoria and, even, the “Mexican Auschwitz.”

He drew international attention on the 75th anniversary of Auschwitz's liberation in 2020, when he remarked Auschwitz "did not fall from the sky" and warned it could happen again.

Jewish women, brought from Auschwitz, were used for slave labour here to make parts for aeroplanes.

Under an enormous, white tent that covered the death camp entrance, the director of the Auschwitz museum, Piotr Cywinski, issued a plea to protect the memory of what had happened, as the survivors died out.