To an unsuspecting motorist, the sleepy, slightly run-down town of Oswiecim might seem like many others in this part of southern Poland. Yet sixty years ago the German occupying forces opened a concentration camp here. Soon afterwards they evacuated the nearby village of Brzezinka and created a much larger camp, covering some 425 acres. What was to go on there was to be veiled in the utmost secrecy and a forty kilometre zone was enclosed to make the area inaccessible. As a matter of course, the two places were then given German names, Auschwitz and Birkenau.
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