Zyklon B pellets found at the liberation of the Majdanek camp. Poland, after July 1944.
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Aerial photograph of Auschwitz-Birkenau taken by Allied planes on August 25, 1944, during a reconnaissance mission. Decades after World War II, this and other images taken that day were rediscovered in American records. The English language labels were added in the 1970s.
This image shows two of the gas chamber and crematorium complexes at the Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center. Specifically, it shows crematorium II and crematorium III, both of which had underground gas chambers and above ground crematoria. The Nazis started murdering Jewish people in these gas chambers in 1943. They dismantled and demolished them in the winter of 1944–1945.
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One of many warehouses at Auschwitz in which the Germans stored clothing taken from victims of the camp. This photograph was taken after the liberation of the camp. Auschwitz, Poland, after January 1945.
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A column of prisoners arrives at the Belzec killing center. Belzec, Poland, ca. 1942.
In early 1940 the Germans set up a forced-labor camp for Jewish prisoners in Belzec. The inmates were forced to build fortifications and dig anti-tank ditches along the demarcation line between Germany and Soviet-occupied Poland. The camp was closed down at the end of 1940. The following year, in November 1941, construction began on the Belzec killing center.
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