A Teacher's Guide to the IG Farben/
Nazi Coalition War Crimes in Poland:
The Auschwitz Concentration Camp | Back to overview
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| The barracks in the "Birkenau" subcamp. The name "Birkenau" translates into "birch meadow". This form of distortion, describing hell on earth as a meadow of birch trees, formed the bases of the so-called "newspeak" in George Orwell's novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four". |
