Hartheim castle, a euthanasia killing center where people with physical and mental disabilities were killed by gassing and lethal injection. Hartheim, Austria, date uncertain.
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Buses that transported patients from the Eichberg hospital near Wiesbaden to the Hadamar euthanasia center, where the patients were gassed or killed by lethal injection. Germany, between May and September 1941.
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Zyklon B pellets found at the liberation of the Majdanek camp. Poland, after July 1944.
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Gas chamber in the main camp of Auschwitz. Photograph taken immediately after liberation. Poland, January 1945.
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