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Poland puts detailed list of Auschwitz SS guards online

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This photo taken on Friday, Jan. 27, 2017 in Oswiecim, Poland, shows chimneys of the former Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz that the Nazis operated in occupied Poland during World War II. Poland's historians have put online what they say is the most complete list of Nazi SS commanders and guards at Auschwitz, in hopes some of them can still be brought to justice. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski) (The Associated Press)

This photo taken on Friday, Jan. 27, 2017 in Oswiecim, Poland, shows a guard's tower of the former Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz that the Nazis operated in occupied Poland during World War II. Poland's historians have put online what they say is the most complete list of Nazi SS commanders and guards at Auschwitz, in hopes some of them can still be brought to justice. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski) (The Associated Press)

This photo taken taken through a metal fence on Friday, Jan. 27, 2017 in Oswiecim, Poland, shows a guard's tower of the former Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz that the Nazis operated in occupied Poland during World War II. Poland's historians have put online what they say is the most complete list of Nazi SS commanders and guards at Auschwitz, in hopes some of them can still be brought to justice. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski) (The Associated Press)

Poland's historians have put online what they say is the most complete list of Nazi SS commanders and guards at the former German death camp of Auschwitz.

The Institute of National Remembrance said Monday that the SS KL Auschwitz Garrison list is based on data from archives in Poland, Germany, Austria, the United States and elsewhere.

The work of historian Aleksander Lasik, the institute and the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial, it has more than 8,500 entries. Most of them include the date and place of birth, nationality, military service and party affiliation. Some have a photo attached.

The dates of service at Auschwitz are being verified pending publication.

Some 1.1 million people, mostly Europe's Jews, were killed at Auschwitz, which the Nazi Germans operated in occupied Poland.