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The Sonderkommando photographs are four blurred photographs taken secretly in August 1944 inside the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. [1] Along with a few photographs in the Auschwitz Album, they are the only ones known to exist of events around the gas chambers.
The 1944 aerial photo of Treblinka II after efforts at "clean-up", or disguising its role as a death camp. The new farmhouse and livestock building are visible to the lower left. [67] The photograph is overlaid with outlines of already-dismantled structures (marked in red/orange).
A small number of pictures appeared in later years, vetted by propaganda and censorship officials before publication. [5] Official visit of Himmler to Mauthausen in June 1941. Bodies waiting to be burned outdoors in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Taken in secret by a team of Sonderkommando workers in August 1944 and later smuggled out to the Polish ...
The "death wall" showing the death-camp flag, the blue-and-white stripes with a red triangle signifying the Auschwitz uniform of political prisoners The courtyard between blocks 10 and 11, known as the "death wall", served as an execution area, including for Poles in the General Government area who had been sentenced to death by a criminal ...
The Nazis distinguished between extermination and concentration camps. The terms extermination camp (Vernichtungslager) and death camp (Todeslager) were interchangeable in the Nazi system, each referring to camps whose primary function was genocide. Six camps meet this definition, though extermination of people happened at every sort of ...
Unlike ordinary inmates, they were not normally subject to arbitrary killing by guards. Their livelihood and utility were determined by how efficiently they could keep the Nazi death factory running. [10] As a result, Sonderkommando members survived longer in the death camps than other prisoners – but few survived the war.
A gate at the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, at the site of the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, on Jan. 27, 2025, Credit - Wojtek Radwanski ...
Aerial photo of the Dachau complex with the actual concentration camp on the left. The camp's layout and building plans were developed by Commandant Theodor Eicke and were applied to all later camps. He had a separate, secure camp near the command center, which consisted of living quarters, administration and army camps.