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Drone video shows the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp as it is today

1 Million People, The Vast Majority Of Them Jews, Executed – Haunting Drone Footage Of The Notorious Nazi Concentration Camp At Auschwitz Becomes BBC’s Most Viewed Video Online


70 years after it was liberated by Soviet troops. The camp in Poland is now maintained as a World Heritage Site and is visited by thousands of tourists and survivors every year. Auschwitz was the largest camp established by the Germans during World War II. More than a million people – the vast majority of them Jews – died there between 1940, when it was built, and 1945, when it was liberated by the Soviet army.