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On 27 January 1945 the concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated. The whole world became aware of the atrocities and horrors committed by the Nazi regime who, in Europe, had deported, tortured and murdered almost six million Jews solely because of what they were. For the same reason the Roma were also exterminated. Persons with disabilities, homosexuals and opponents were imprisoned and either died of exhaustion or were murdered. On 1 November 2005, the United…