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This episode explores topics that some may find disturbing.

Listener discretion is advised. She lies by the wall, groaning. The prisoners in the Sondercamando

a special unit assigned to pull the corpses apart and empty the gas chambers find her,

a 16-year-old girl covered with dead bodies. They carry her into an adjoining room and wrap her

in a coat. No one has ever survived gassing before. On his rounds, an SS Oboshafer notices the group.

One of the prisoners pleads for the girl's life, please let her pass through the gate and join

the other women on the road building unit. But the guard shakes his head. The girl might talk.

He beckons a colleague over. He has no hesitation either. A bullet to the back of the neck.

That's an account in Auschwitzer history by Sybil Steinbacher. Welcome to We Have Ways of Making You Talk with me

Al-Murie and James Holland for the third part of our series looking at Auschwitz. James, I think it's fair

to say that what we've done in the previous two episodes is laid out the circumstances

of Auschwitz's development, partnership between the state and German industry in the form of

IG Farben, to create the camp as it became. But on this episode, we're going to be looking at,

I think, the thing that people know about Auschwitz. The mass extermination.

The mass extermination, the camp which was up until this point,

concentration camp becomes an extermination camp,

a sort of double-headed monster, isn't it?

Yeah, and Auschwitz-Burkenau, unlike the other Operation Reinhardt extermination camps is not designed as an extermination

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