Francis becomes third Pope to visit Auschwitz

Pope Francis has paid a sombre visit to the Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Francis becomes third Pope to visit Auschwitz

Pope Francis has paid a sombre visit to the Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

He became the third consecutive pontiff to make the pilgrimage to the place where Adolf Hitler's forces killed more than one million people, most of them Jews.

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