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OCR: Cheimno was the first death camp opened by the Nazis. Located western Poland Cheimno's main purpose was the murder of Poiish Jews Gypsies, and Soviet prisoners of war. Unlike other death camps where prisoners were murdered in gas chambers victims ai Cheimno were herded into iarge vans and killed with the carbon monoxide generated by the vehicles engines Killings began Cheimno in December 1941 and by the time closed in January 1945 as many as 360 ,000 people had been murdered there and buried in mass graves Chelmno murdei Polish beer