Pope Francis paid a sombre visit to the Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau on Friday, becoming the third consecutive pontiff to make the pilgrimage to the place where Adolf Hitler's forces killed more than 1 million people, most of them Jews. Francis entered the camp on foot, walking slowly beneath the notorious gate (inset) at Auschwitz bearing the cynical words 'Arbeit Macht Frei', meaning 'Work sets you free'. At the dark underground prison cell that once housed St. Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish Catholic friar who sacrificed his own life during the war to save the life of another man, Francis prayed (left). Before he left he wrote in the Auschwitz guest book: 'Lord, have pity on your people. Lord, forgive so much cruelty.' He later visited a children's hospital in Krakow to bless the patients (right).
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