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World War II: About 3,000 inmates from the Stutthof concentration camp are forcibly marched into the Baltic Sea at Palmnicken (now Yantarny, Russia) and executed.

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Stutthof concentration camp

Nazi concentration camp in Poland (1939–1945)

Stutthof was a Nazi concentration camp established by Nazi Germany in a secluded, marshy, and wooded area near the village of Stutthof 34 km (21 mi) east of the city of Danzig (Gdańsk) in the territory of the German-annexed Free City of Danzig. The camp was set up around…
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Sea in northern Europe

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Yantarny, Kaliningrad Oblast

Urban-type settlement in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia

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