The train to death This plan directed attention to another aspect. For many railroad platforms in Germany and Europe, Auschwitz was the final stop. The Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp had ...

By 1944 a three-track railroad spur and unloading ramp was operational at Auschwitz, ferrying as many Jews to their deaths as possible as mass murder was made functional and effortless.

The railroad played a key role in the genocide, transporting more than 400,000 Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz over two months in 1944. Follow the AP’s coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court at https ...