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Europe before World War I. |
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Europe between the two World Wars. |
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Nazi dominated Europe. |
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Europe after World War II. |
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Plan of the Auschwitz region. |
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Interior of disinfestation chamber at Dachau; left: DEGESCH Kreislaufanlage (circulation device); right: look through the chamber. (This photo was taken by the author in 1973.) |
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Bodies being cremated in open pits, allegedly north of Krematorium V, Birkenau. Photos allegedly taken by the former Polish Auschwitz inmate David Szmulewski.[1] |
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Scenes from the trial of camp guards at Dachau.[2] |
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Yard at Belsen after British capture of the camp.[3] |
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Mass grave at Belsen; bottom: British liberators deliberately exposed SS women to contagious diseases.[4] |
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British guard post at entrance to Belsen camp.[5] |
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Women guards at Belsen, lined up after capture of the camp; bottom right: Irma Grese, who was supposedly the most hated of all guards.[6] |
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Crematorium building at Dachau; top two pictures: after the liberation; bottom picture: in 1998. Editor’s note: Note the differences between those pictures: a) today, a ramp allows access for persons in wheelchairs; b) a shed (circle top two pictures) was removed; two openings (arrows lower picture) are now visible at this spot, allegedly used to fill Zyklon B into the shower room — the claimed gas chamber, which, according to the Dachau Museum, was never used.[7] |
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Delousing Senator Wherry after tour of Dachau.[8] |
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Dead bodies found on train at Dachau.[9] |
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Shower baths at Dachau; top: Members of U.S. Congress inspecting it after the war. From left to right: Sen. Wherry (NE), Sen. Brooks (IL), Rep. Vorhys (OH), and Rep. Richards (SC); bottom: Dachau Museum 1998 with sign claiming that this room was never used as a gas chamber (see inset).[10] |
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Dachau crematorium with four muffles, three of which are visible here; top: U.S. Representative Vorhys inspects it after the war; bottom: Museum Dachau 1998.[11] |
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Crematorium at Buchenwald with six muffles; top: U.S. Congressmen inspecting it after the war; bottom: Buchenwald museum 1998.[12] |
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Entrance to Dachau shower bath which was baptized gas chamber after the war.[13] |
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Liberated Dachau inmates mistreat (top) and murdered (bottom) camp guards.[14] |
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Liberation Day at Dachau; top: view from the main entrance tower; bottom left: cheering prisoners; bottom right: camp guards are summarily executed.[15] |
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Door of disinfestation chamber at Dachau. The inscriptions on the door specify that the chamber was last used from 7:30 to 10 in the morning. The warning reads Caution! Gas! Life danger! Do not open! The U.S. Army caption for this photograph declares: Gas chambers, conveniently located to the crematory, are examined by a soldier of the U.S. Seventh Army. These chambers were used by Nazi guards for killing prisoners of the infamous Dachau concentration camp. [16] |
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Some of the principal German camps. Theresienstadt was not really a camp, but a ghetto or village, as you wish. |
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Russian soap evidence at the IMT.[17] |
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A page from document 022-L, as reproduced in the 42nd volume record of the International Military Tribunal. |
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Said to be a photograph of the furnace room of crematorium II at Auschwitz.[18] |
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A can of Zyklon B.[19] The label says POISON GAS! |
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Several cans of Zyklon B: top: in the camp Lublin-Majdanek as found by the Red Army; bottom: from an advertisement of the DEGESCH firm.[20] |
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Plan of Birkenau. The location of the Red House or Bunker, top left, is claimed by eye witnesses, but unconfirmed. |
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Document NG-2263, reproduced from Braham, The Destruction of Hungarian Jewry. |
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The crematorium at Lublin-Majdanek camp. This crematorium had five muffles, three of which are visible here.[21] |
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A collection of medical specimens allegedly found at Buchenwald.[22] |
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Plan of Auschwitz Crematorium II.
- Leichenkeller 1. Below ground level morgue.
- Leichenkeller 2. Below ground level morgue.
- Leichenkeller 3. Below ground level morgue.
- Furnace room. Ground level only. 15 cremation muffles.
- Corpse elevator. Only the small central part of the building, where the furnace room joined Leichenkeller 1 and 2, had two levels.
- Corpse chute.
- Cellar entrance.
- Cellar entrance.
- Ground level entrance.
- Chimney and waste incinerator.
- Supervisor’s office, worker rest room, toilet, shower, tools, urn storage, fuel (coke) storage.
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Arrangement of flues and ducts for Auschwitz crematorium II.[23] |
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Gestapo telegram of 11 April 1944, reporting the escape of Walter Rosenberg and Alfred Wetzler from Auschwitz. Courtesy International Tracing Service, Arolsen. |
