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Auschwitz, Poland, Himmler visiting the site of I.G. Farben.
Documents indicate 87-yr-old Philadelphia man as an SS guard in Auschwitz II
The case of an 87-year-old Philadelphia man accused by Germany of serving as an SS guard at Auschwitz has largely centered on whether he was stationed at the part of the death camp used as a killing machine for Jews.
Johann “Hans” Breyer — while admitting he was an Auschwitz guard — insists he was never there.
World-War II-era documents obtained by The Associated Press indicate otherwise.
The files provided by the U.S. Department of Justice in response to an AP request are now in the hands of German authorities, and could provide the legal basis for charging him as an accessory to the murder of hundreds of thousands of Jews in the Nazi death camp.
The retired toolmaker told the AP in September, when German authorities confirmed he was under investigation, that he was always at Auschwitz I, a smaller camp used largely for slave labor, and never entered Auschwitz II, also known as Auschwitz-Birkenau, where about 90 percent of the 1.1 million to 1.5 million Jews and others killed in the camp were murdered.
Hair which belonged to prisoners is seen in the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz in Oswiecim, Poland.
Architect’s drawings of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz are pictured in an office of Germany’s Bild newspaper in Berlin November 9, 2008. The original construction plans believed used for a major expansion of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz in 1941 have been found in a Berlin flat, Germany’s Bild newspaper reported on Saturday.
Architect’s drawings of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz are pictured in an office of Germany’s Bild newspaper in Berlin November 9, 2008. The original construction plans believed used for a major expansion of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz in 1941 have been found in a Berlin flat, Germany’s Bild newspaper reported on Saturday.
Architect’s drawings of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz are pictured in an office of Germany’s Bild newspaper in Berlin November 9, 2008. The original construction plans believed used for a major expansion of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz in 1941 have been found in a Berlin flat, Germany’s Bild newspaper reported on Saturday. Words read: “Prisoners of war camp Auschwitz”.
General plan of Auschwitz I including the massive headquarters that were never built, 30.4.1942
Boy in Auschwitz concentration camp
The Auschwitz II-Birkenau main guard house and rail entrance.
Photo by Wilhelm Brasse | AuschwitzCzeslawa Kwoka, age 14, appears in a prisoner identity photo provided by the Auschwitz Museum. Czeslawa was a Polish Catholic girl, from Wolka Zlojecka, Poland, who was sent to Auschwitz with her mother in December of 1942. Within three months, both were dead.Photographer (and fellow prisoner) Brasse recalled photographing Czeslawa in a 2005 documentary: “She was so young and so terrified. The girl didn’t understand why she was there and she couldn’t understand what was being said to her. So this woman Kapo (a prisoner overseer) took a stick and beat her about the face. This German woman was just taking out her anger on the girl. Such a beautiful young girl, so innocent. She cried but she could do nothing. Before the photograph was taken, the girl dried her tears and the blood from the cut on her lip. To tell you the truth, I felt as if I was being hit myself but I couldn’t interfere. It would have been fatal for me.”
Auschwitz, Poland, Himmler visiting the site of IG Farben.
(Source: dreadfulnecrosis)
How members of the Belgian resistance stopped a train headed for Auschwitz in 1943.
Portrait of Istvan Reiner, taken shortly before he was killed in Auschwitz, Hungary, 1943-44 (USHMM)
no.
No.
NO
FUCKING NO
I NEED A TIME MACHINE
RIGHT FUCKING NOW
THERE IS NO WAY ANYONE IS GOING NEAR THIS BABY
NOT NOW
NOT THEN
NOT EVER
Can you even imagine that this baby had a tattoo on his arm ? -.- I can’t
all the poor babies.
I NEED A FUCKING TIME MACHINE
People who were selected for the gas chamber were never tattooed.
(Auschwitz key staff and female auxiliaries, here at Solahütte, 1944)
Auschwitz, Poland
Canisters of Zyklon B in the museum. (via Yad Vashem)
