Pope Benedict XVI may visit Auschwitz this spring during a planned trip to Poland. A spokesman for Archbishop of Krakow Stanislaw Dziwisz told The Associated Press that Dziwisz had invited the German-born pontiff to visit the former Nazi death camp.
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