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  • 20230618 ScheWo Poznań Fort VII Cell 19.jpg

    Photo by ScheWo via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

  • 20230618 ScheWo Poznań Fort VII Cell Corridor Sculptures.jpg

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  • 20230618 ScheWo Poznań Fort VII Cell Corridor.jpg

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  • 20230618 ScheWo Poznań Fort VII Eingang.jpg

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  • 20230618 ScheWo Poznań Fort VII Exhibition1.jpg

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  • 20230618 ScheWo Poznań Fort VII Hauptgebäude außen.jpg

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Background

Fort VII, officially Konzentrationslager Posen (renamed later), was a Nazi German death camp set up in Poznań in German-occupied Poland during World War II, located in one of the 19th-century forts circling the city. According to different estimates, between 4,500 and 20,000 people, mostly Poles from Poznań and the surrounding region, died while imprisoned at the camp.

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