Between 1940 and 1944, the complex of buildings belonging to the Polish Tobacco Monopoly was part of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. The first camp prisoners were housed in these buildings, which later served economic purposes: a food warehouse for SS men (Lagerhaus), camp administration offices (SS - Stabsgebäude), camp supervisor quarters, warehouses and an SS laundry. Today, the building is partly occupied by a state vocational college. The structure of the buildings, the railway s

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