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Forced labor in the quarry of the Mauthausen concentration camp. Austria, date uncertain.
SS chief Heinrich Himmler leads an inspection of the Mauthausen concentration camp. Austria, April 27, 1941.
Prisoners at forced labor in the quarry of the Mauthausen concentration camp. Austria, date uncertain.
A view of the quarry at the Mauthausen concentration camp, where prisoners were subjected to forced labor. Austria, 1938-1945.
View of the Neuengamme concentration camp. Prisoners stand behind the fence that separates the "protective custody" camp from the manufacturing sectors of the camp. In the distance are the crematorium and the Walther armaments works. Photograph taken between 1940 and 1945, Neuengamme, Germany.
Prisoners at forced labor in the brick factory at Neuengamme concentration camp. Germany, date uncertain.
Prisoners at forced labor in the Neuengamme concentration camp, Germany, 1941-1942.
Forced labor in Neuengamme concentration camp. Germany, 1940.
A section of the prisoner barracks in the Majdanek camp. Photograph taken after the liberation of the camp in July 1944. Poland, date uncertain.
Prisoners at forced labor in the Siemens factory. Auschwitz camp, Poland, 1940–44.
View of the stone quarry in the Gross-Rosen camp, where prisoners were subjected to forced labor. Gross-Rosen, Germany, 1940-1945.
Soviet prisoners of war arrive at the Majdanek camp. Poland, between October 1941 and April 1944.
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