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Polish PM, German chancellor attend Auschwitz foundation anniversary

Friday's ceremony took place in the so-called central sauna building within the Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp, where the Nazis registered the incoming inmates, depriving them of their names and replacing them with numbers. Andrzej Grygiel/PAP

Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and three former inmates of the Nazi German death camp Auschwitz on Friday attended ceremonies marking the 10th anniversary of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation at the former camp's site.

Angela Merkel, Mateusz Morawiecki arrive at Auschwitz

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki on Friday morning arrived at the former Nazi German death camp Auschwitz in south Poland as the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation marks its 10th anniversary.

Fury as Amazon puts Auschwitz Christmas tree ornaments online

The tasteless decorations showing scenes from the extermination camp where over 1 million people were murdered, and posted alongside festive scenes from other parts of Europe, all cost around 50 PLN.

Polish Foreign Ministry thanks Netflix for amendments to documentary

Poland's Foreign Ministry, on its Twitter account on Thursday, thanked Netflix Polska for the quick reaction on its documentary series about a notorious guard at the Nazi-German Treblinka death camp.

VICTORY!!! Netflix says it WILL correct inaccuracies in its John Demjanjuk documentary

In a statement, the network said it would “make it clearer that the extermination and concentration camps in Poland were built and operated by the German Nazi regime who invaded the country and occupied it from 1939-1945.”

Get it RIGHT! PM blasts Netflix over historically inaccurate WWII documentary

In a letter to the company’s CEO Reed Hastings, the PM scolded the network’s recent documentary series The Devil Next Door for “obfuscating historical facts” including a map which “falsely places several German Nazi concentration camps within modern-day Poland’s borders.”

Polish Foreign Ministry, party critical of Netflix documentary

Poland's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the junior ruling coalition partner Agreement, on Sunday expressed criticism of a Netflix documentary series which they say presents untrue information about Poland's history during WWII.

Polish PM marks 76th anniversary of mass execution of Jews at Majdanek

Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki on Monday commemorated Nazi Germany's World War II Aktion Erntefest, which saw the mass shooting of over 18,000 Jews at the Majdanek concentration camp in Lublin, eastern Poland.

Remains of Polish women slaughtered in Nazi's Ravensbrück death camp found

The find was the result of a hunt by the Institute of National Remembrance for victims of Nazi terror.

The extraordinary story of Jewish ballerina who gunned down SS beast before being murdered

On the 76th anniversary of her death at Auschwitz-Birkenau on October 23, 1943, TFN’s Stuart Dowell looks back at the mysterious case of Franceska Mann.

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