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Barracks X was the code name for the crematorium.  At the end of the war it was modified at the far end to accommodate the gas rooms and showers.  It is not thought that the showers were actually put into full service and most prisoners were executed either by being shot along the wall behind the building or hung in front of the ovens.

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