"During the hot summer days of 1940, rumors began circulating in Kraków that were working on some major construction on the Silesian border, like large barracks or blocks — all surrounded by barbed wire and kept under the tightest secrecy. But even if it had been public, none of us could have grasped what was going on, because the Germans were building Auschwitz."
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Karolina Lanckorońska, in Destruction of the Polish Elite, p. 69.
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