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Events on Friday 14 June 1940 2
1940Fall of ParisGerman troops enter the French capitalThe French government declared Paris an open city and moved south. German troops entered Paris unopposed on 14 June. Pictures of German soldiers marching past the Arc de Triomphe became symbols of the French defeat.
1940First prisoners arrive at AuschwitzPolish political prisoners open the campOn 14 June the Germans sent 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnów to the new concentration camp at Auschwitz. The camp grew into the largest Nazi killing centre. More than a million people, most of them Jews, were murdered there by 1945.