Aerial photograph of part of the Auschwitz camp complex in German-occupied Poland taken by an Allied reconnaissance unit on December 21, 1944. The Auschwitz main camp is visible in the upper right-hand corner. The straight line running through the middle of the image is a railroad track. Much of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp is visible in the upper left of the photograph.
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