Germany to pay over £50 million to preserve Auschwitz

Auschwitz-Birkenau was operated by the SS in occupied Poland during the Second World War until it was liberated on 27 January 1945 by Soviet troops Photo: GETTY IMAGES

Germany is to pay more than £50 million to help preserve the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Poland where over a million Jews were exterminated during the Second World War

By Allan Hall in Berlin 

5:15PM GMT 17 Dec 2010

Telegraph

The money will help preserve the rotting watchtowers, barracks and other buildings that testify to the greatest crime in history.

The Auschwitz-Birkenau Fund was set up in 2009 to gather money to maintain the original camp. The camp was operated by the SS in occupied Poland during the Second World War until it was liberated on 27 January 1945 by Soviet troops. More than 1 million people, mostly Jews, died in the camp's gas chambers or through forced labour, disease or starvation.

"Germany acknowledges its historic responsibility to keep the memory of the Holocaust alive and to pass it on to future generations," Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said in a statement. "Auschwitz-Birkenau is synonymous with the crimes of the Nazis. Today's memorial recalls these crimes."

Most urgently in need of repair are the 45 brick barracks of the women's camp in the Birkenau section of the camp.

"They are in tragic condition due to the method of their construction and due to the water that is washing away the ground where they were built. They are crumbling away and could collapse at any time," said a spokesman for the Auschwitz Museum.

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