Poland uncovers new names of former Auschwitz staff

[World News]

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Polish officials said Friday they had drawn up a list of 9,500 staff members at the Nazi German death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, thousands more than previous estimates. The individuals all worked at the notorious death camp in occupied Poland between 1940 and 1945, according to the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), which prosecutes Nazi and Stalinist-era war crimes. "Until now, Nazi staff (at Auschwitz) had been estimated at between 4,000 and 6,500 people," IPN prosecutor Lukasz Gramza told AFP. The IPN will share the list with the German office investigating Nazi war crimes.

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