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Can we stop bickering about this rail spur please, it was known as the Hungarian Ramp and is the one leading into the camp.
More than enough people took their last journey on it into Birkenau so it should be treated with respect.
The spur trace can still be seen today on Google earth.
When they filmed Shindlers List, Auschwitz authorities would not allow filming inside the camp and the rail shots were taken outside the camp on these rails in front of the guard house main entrance.
This from The unloading ramps and selections
The third ramp was built from 1943 inside the Birkenau camp, and went into operation in May 1944 in connection with the anticipated arrival of transports of Hungarian Jews. The railroad spur along this ramp ran as far as gas chambers and crematoria II and III. Aside from the 430 thousand Hungarian Jews, 67 thousand Jews from the Łódź ghetto and some of the transports from the ghetto in Terezin and from Slovakia were unloaded at this ramp. From this point on, mass selections of Jews took place inside the camp, before the eyes of thousands of prisoners. Transports of Poles from Warsaw during the Uprising there, sent to Auschwitz by way of the transit camp in Pruszków, were also unloaded here.
All three ramps also served as embarkation points for prisoners transferred from Auschwitz to sub-camps and other concentration camps.