This is the site of the largest mass murder in the history of the world—Auschwitz. 1.1 million people died here. More than the total British and American losses in the whole of the Second World War.

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. On Jan. 27, 1945, the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland was ...