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Auschwitz, Birkenau
2007.07.05
'ARBEIT MACHT FREI'. I fail to see how.
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'ARBEIT MACHT FREI'. I fail to see how.
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I mean, just look at those fences. Double-layered fences.
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I mean, just look at those fences. Double-layered fences.
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The original buildings were preserved - the authorities converted the place into a museum almost immediately after the war.
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The original buildings were preserved - the authorities converted the place into a museum almost immediately after the war.
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Each building housed hundreds of people. And these are no palaces we're talking about here.
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Each building housed hundreds of people. And these are no palaces we're talking about here.
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One of the instruments of torture
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One of the instruments of torture
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...and worse: the firing range
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...and worse: the firing range
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That little ventilation hole in the corner is of a 90cm by 90cm cell, where prisoners were made to stand all night after a hard day's work. 4 prisoners squeezed into the tiny cell each time.
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That little ventilation hole in the corner is of a 90cm by 90cm cell, where prisoners were made to stand all night after a hard day's work. 4 prisoners squeezed into the tiny cell each time.
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The crematorium, which worked overtime everyday. Eventually new, more efficient ones were build in the second camp at Birkenau.
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The crematorium, which worked overtime everyday. Eventually new, more efficient ones were build in the second camp at Birkenau.
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The railroad leading into the Auschwitz-Birkenau, at the end of which people were either led to the gas chambers or put to hard labour.
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The railroad leading into the Auschwitz-Birkenau, at the end of which people were either led to the gas chambers or put to hard labour.
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Often, these structures were the only thing between sick, exhausted prisoners and the long, harsh Polish winters.
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Often, these structures were the only thing between sick, exhausted prisoners and the long, harsh Polish winters.
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Interior of one of the 'dorms'
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Interior of one of the 'dorms'
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View of the sprawling camp from 3rd floor of one of the guardhouses.
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View of the sprawling camp from 3rd floor of one of the guardhouses.
