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Barbed-wire fence and barracks of the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, today Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, are pictured in Oswiecim, Poland, on January 26, 2025, a day before commemorations on the 80th anniversary of the camp's liberation by the Red Army. The camp was set up by Nazi German occupiers in southern Poland in 1940 and liberated by Soviet troops on January 27, 1945 -- just months before the end of the Second World War. (Photo by Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP) (Photo by WOJTEK RADWANSKI/AFP via Getty Images)