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She is presented as Hannelore Kaufmann, a 13-year-old Berliner who purportedly died at the Auschwitz extermination camp, of which the 1945 liberation by Soviet troops is commemorated on Tuesday.

From Barron's Jan. 27, 2026

Instead of calling an extermination company, my landlord would just text me, claiming the next-door neighbors were dirty.

From MarketWatch Dec. 11, 2025

Theirs was a bold but unlikely mission: to parachute behind enemy lines and save European Jews from extermination.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 17, 2025

In contrast, most units that underwent extermination were cleared of cockroaches and showed substantial reductions in both allergens and endotoxins.

From Science Daily Nov. 4, 2025

Defenders of the overkill hypothesis reply: you would hardly expect to find kill sites if the extermination was completed very quickly and long ago, such as within a few millennia some 40,000 years ago.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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