A uniformed soldier rides atop a horse past a large metal and concrete gate. A dog, possibly a Malinois, walks next to the horse and rider. The gate is decorated by a Nazi eagle statue on top of the visible (left) concrete column.
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Janowska camp commandant Gustav Willhaus

SS Second Lieutenant Gustav Willhaus, camp commandant, rides past the main gate of the Janowska concentration camp. The road from the street and into the camp was paved with tombstones the Nazis removed from Jewish cemeteries. Janowska, Poland, between September 1942 and November 1943.


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