Auschwitz

Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest of Nazi Germany's concentration camps and extermination camps, operational during World War II from 1940-1945. An estimated 1.1 million people died in Auschwitz, primarily in its gas-chamber system.

Auschwitz in The Man With the Iron Heart
The reality of camps such as Auschwitz were still difficult to grasp for many among the Allied troops occupying Germany after World War II.

A survivor of Auschwitz, Shmuel Birnbaum, had helped build the Alpine headquarters of Reinhard Heydrich. In 1947, Birnbaum led American forces to Heydrich.