On January 27th 1945, Red Army troops discovered, almost by chance, the Third Reich's largest extermination camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Seventy years on, FRANCE 24 looks back at the history of what has become the symbol of the Holocaust.
Programme prepared by Patrick Lovett and Elise Duffau
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