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The ruined interior of one of the barracks of the World War ll Nazi extermination camp Majdanek, now a musem, following a fire in Lublin, Poland, on August 10. The barrack, storing shoes of the camp's former prisoners, went down in flames overnight, the cause of the blaze is yet to be determined.
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A pile of human bones and skulls is seen in 1944 at the Nazi concentration camp of Majdanek in the outskirts of Lublin, the second largest death camp in Poland after Auschwitz, following its liberation in 1944 by Russian troops.
A fire swept through a barrack at the former Nazi death camp of Majdanek, destroying more than half the building and possibly 10,000 shoes of Holocaust victims.
Above are the burned shoes, and a photograph after the Russian liberation of the camp in 1944 - a grim reminder of what those shoes represent.
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And so many "leaders" say this never happened.