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'Earlier plans' for Auschwitz

Blueprints of Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz, which appear to show that the site was extended to carry out exterminations of the Jewish people earlier than was previously thought, have been published by the German newspaper Bild. Correspondent Steve Rosenberg and Professor David Cesarani, of the Holocaust memorial Museum, discuss if this means the plan for the Holocaust, the "final solution", was devised earlier than January 1942.

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