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Der 27. Januar ist in Deutschland ein offizieller Gedenktag. Woran erinnert dieser Tag?
- an das Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges
- an die Verabschiedung des Grundgesetzes
- an die Wiedervereinigung Deutschlands
- an die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus (Tag der Befreiung des Vernichtungslagers Auschwitz)
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January 27 is Germany's official day of remembrance for the victims of National Socialism, chosen because Soviet forces liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp on that date in 1945. Auschwitz was the largest Nazi concentration and extermination camp, where approximately 1.1 million people — the vast majority of them Jewish — were murdered. Germany officially designated January 27 as a national day of remembrance in 1996, and it was later adopted by the United Nations as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.