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An aerial view of Poland's "Death Valley," where the Nazis carried out mass executions during World War II

Remains of Nazi Massacre Victims Discovered in Poland’s ‘Death Valley’

In January 1945, German forces murdered around 500 Polish resistance fighters in a forest near the village of Chojnice

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