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Chelmno

In World War II, site of the first German extermination camp, about 50 km/31 mi northeast of Bydgoszcz in western Poland. A total of about 350,000 Jews and gypsies were killed at the camp before it was closed and destroyed 1944.

Established 1941, it first used closed trucks which killed the occupants with exhaust fumes, then moved to the use of Zyklon B gas. Escapees from Chelmno were the first to report that Jews were being systematically exterminated, but were not initially believed.



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Of that population, 130,000 were deported and exterminated, mostly at Chelmno or Auschwitz, while 60,000 died in the ghetto through starvation, disease, hypothermia, suicide or execution.
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But six--Auschwitz, Chelmno, Treblinka, Majdanek, Sobibor, and Belzec, all in occupied Poland, where the local population was considered less sympathetic to the Jews' plight--were deliberately outfitted for mass murder.
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It mirrored precisely what the other escapees revealed about the mass gassing and killing of Jews in Chelmno.
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