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scattolarotrueloveforheinrich:
Auschwitz, Poland, Himmler visiting the site of I.G. Farben.
Law of War
For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. - Elie Wiesel
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→ 09 Apr 13 at 9 am
→ 09 Apr 13 at 9 am
Infirmed survivors lie on cots and on the floor in the infirmary of the Dachau concentration camp, (USHMM) 1945.
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Never before seen images show the liberation of Dachau, the first of the thousands of concentration camps that sprang up across Germany after the Nazis swept into power.
Dachau was liberated by American troops on April 29, 1945. By that time over 200,000 people from all over Europe had been imprisoned there. An estimated 41,500 of these were murdered.
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→ 22 Mar 13 at 3 pm
→ 22 Mar 13 at 3 pm
The body of an SS guard lies next to the moat in the Dachau concentration camp (USHMM), 1945.
On April 29, 1945 members of the 1st Company, 3rd Battalion, 157th Infantry, under the command of Lt. Col. Felix L. Sparks, entered Dachau. When they discovered a train of 36 boxcars bearing the corpses of prisoners who had been transferred to Dachau in the last weeks of the war, they rounded up any remaining SS camp guards. Around 60 were executed. Others were beaten. Afterwards a military investigation submitted a report to General George Patton, commander of the 3rd Army, who chose not to take any action. The report was declassified in 1991.
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→ 22 Mar 13 at 1 pm
Clandestine photograph taken from a window showing German SS men and soldiers marching away from the Dachau concentration camp, the day before it was liberated, (USHMM) April 1945.
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March 22, 1933: Dachau concentration camp opens.
Dachau concentration camp, located in the southern German state of Bavaria, was completed and opened less than two months after Adolf Hitler was named Chancellor or Germany, making it the earliest built of the Nazi concentration camps. The construction of Dachau took place amidst the Nazis’ consolidation of power in the German government (and very soon over all aspects of German life), and its initial purpose was to suppress any potential opponents of the new regime - political prisoners, often communists and social democrats. Later, the camp’s prisoner population came to include common criminals and religious dissidents; in 1935, Jehovah’s Witnesses and homosexuals arrived as prisoners to Dachau; in 1938, after the annexations of Austria and the Sudetenland, 11,000 Jews were deported to the camp; and throughout the war, more prisoners from all across Europe came to Dachau. In 1939 its prisoners were relocated to Buchenwald, but by 1944 thousands of people had been packed together into this overcrowded, disease-ridden camp.
As the first camp to be established by the Nazis, Dachau served as the model for later concentration camps and a testing ground for techniques that would be used at those other sites. Theodor Eicke was made commandant of the camp in June of 1933, and it was he more than anyone who devised the system and regulations of Dachau and most later Nazi camps. His Lagerordnung served as the camps’ disciplinary code, laying out the various punishments, ranging from hard time to flogging to death, to be doled out to prisoners who violated dress codes or attempted to agitate revolt. Although distinct from the extermination camps of Poland, whose main purpose was to kill as many people as possible as efficiently as possible, Dachau claimed thousands of lives due to poor sanitation, starvation, overworking, outbreaks of typhus, and other factors.
Dachau, its subsidiary camps, and the approximately 60,000 people imprisoned within them were liberated in April of 1945 by American soldiers, who, after seeing the horrific conditions of the camps and the railroad cars piled high with bodies, killed a number of German guards. In May, the 7,000 prisoners (mostly Jews) who had been forced by their guards on a death march to Tegernsee were also liberated.
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Soviet POWs standing before a barracks in Mauthausen Concentration Camp at the liberation by the Allies, Austria, 1945.
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→ 24 Dec 12 at 12 am
Gate to the garage yard in the Mauthausen concentration camp.
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→ 24 Dec 12 at 12 am
→ 24 Dec 12 at 12 am
Hair which belonged to prisoners is seen in the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz in Oswiecim, Poland.
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→ 24 Dec 12 at 12 am
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.
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→ 24 Dec 12 at 12 am
→ 24 Dec 12 at 12 am
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.
(Source: wwii-in-photographs)
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→ 24 Dec 12 at 12 am
→ 24 Dec 12 at 12 am
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”.
(Source: wwii-in-photographs)
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→ 24 Dec 12 at 12 am
→ 24 Dec 12 at 12 am
General plan of Auschwitz I including the massive headquarters that were never built, 30.4.1942
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→ 16 Aug 12 at 9 am
Clothing of prisoners of Sachsenhausen concentration camp who had recently been killed - Oranienburg, Brandenburg, Germany.
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→ 15 Aug 12 at 10 am
→ 15 Aug 12 at 10 am
Head of women’s labor power the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp - Irma Grese (Irma Grese) and the Commandant of Hauptsturmführer (captain), Joseph Kramer, SS (Josef Kramer) under British guard in the prison yard of the city of Celle, Germany.
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