Challenging visit to chilling scenes of Nazi death camp ; Journal reporter GRAEME WILKINSON joined A level students from across West Wales on a visit to the Nazi death camp Auschwitz

FROM the infamous square watchtower of Auschwitz-Birkenau, thedouble rows of electrified barbed wire vanish into the distance inboth directions.

Looking out across the vast Nazi death camp are A-level studentsfrom west Wales. They made the trip to Poland last month to see forthemselves the site where around 1.2million people were murderedduring the second world war.

Beneath them runs the railway line that carried the cattle trucksand inside the camp lie the heaps of bricks and rubble that were thegas chambers and crematoria.

Ioan Hughes, of Carmarthen's Ysgol Bro Myrddin, said: "I didn'trealise how vast Auschwitz is. For us to see it with our own …