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April 27,
1940 Himmler orders establishment of Auschwitz Concentration Camp

1942 Belgian Jews are forced to wear stars
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April 27,
1943 Witold Pilecki escapes from Auschwitz after having voluntarily been imprisoned there to gain information about the Holocaust

1945 Italian partisans capture Benito Mussolini at Dongo (Lake Como)

"The Man Who Volunteered for Auschwitz"
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/10/the-man-who-volunteered-for-auschwitz/263083/
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