The Auschwitz Combat Group (German: Kampfgruppe Auschwitz, Polish: Grupa Bojowa Oświęcim) was international left-wing resistance organizationinAuschwitz concentration camp.
Kampfgruppe Auschwitz was founded in 1943. In 1944, together with the Polish Underground State, the Kampfgruppe set up an overall Auschwitz Military Council to coordinate resistance.
The majority of members of the Group were communists, socialists, captured Polish and Soviet partisans, members of anti-Nazi resistance movements, and former members of International Brigades. The members of the Kampfgruppe were from Austria, Poland, France, Germany, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union. Among them were also many Jews.[1]
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