Moscow Returns Four Auschwitz Registers
Reuters
WARSAW —
The Soviet Union has returned to Poland four of 46 German death register books taken by the Soviet army from the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz, the official PAP news agency said Saturday.
The registers had been held in Moscow since the camp’s liberation in 1945, and their disappearance made it impossible to establish a definite total for the number of people, mostly Jews, killed at Auschwitz.
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