"It also shows how they died," Jost said, displaying the camp's Totenbuch, or death book, for 1942 and 1943. "These prisoners were killed every two minutes with a shot to the back of the head."
In a few hours, 300 were executed on April 20, 1942.
"That was Hitler's birthday. The camp commandant did it as a birthday gift for him," Jost said.
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