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that during a prisoner revolt at Auschwitz in 1944, prisoners threw a particularly brutal SS guard into a lit crematory oven while the guard was still alive.

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Fun Fact: that during a prisoner revolt at Auschwitz in 1944, prisoners threw a particularly brutal SS guard into a lit crematory oven while the guard was still alive.

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