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The Sonderkommando photographs are four blurred photographs taken secretly in August 1944 inside the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. [1] Along with a few photographs in the Auschwitz Album, they are the only ones known to exist of events around the gas chambers.
Nazi Concentration Camps, also known as Nazi Concentration and Prison Camps, [a] is a 1945 American film that documents the liberation of Nazi concentration camps by Allied forces during World War II. It was produced by the United States from footage captured by military photographers serving in the Allied armies as they advanced into Germany.
Stalag XVIII-A was a World War II German Army (Wehrmacht) prisoner-of-war camp located to the south of the town of Wolfsberg, in the southern Austrian state of Carinthia, then a part of Nazi Germany. A sub-camp Stalag XVIII-A/Z was later opened in Spittal an der Drau about 100 km (62 mi) to the west.
In May 1944, about 15% of prisoners were officially ill, but in May 1945, just before liberation, almost half of the prisoners were officially ill. [6]: 27–28 Prisoner doctors and fellow Spanish prisoners working in medical supply depots smuggled additional food into the camp. From 1943 to 1944, many dangerously ill prisoners were transported ...
Colored inverted triangles were used in the concentration camps in the German-occupied countries to identify the reason the prisoners had been placed there. The triangles were made of fabric and were sewn on jackets and shirts of the prisoners. These mandatory badges had specific meanings indicated by their color and shape.
The camp was officially opened on 25 May 1940, when the first prisoners and guards moved in. [16] [13] [8] The camp was directly adjacent to the road between Sankt Georgen an der Gusen and nearby Langenstein; [17] [10] former prisoners recalled Austrian children passing by on the way to school. Until the camp wall was completed, passerby had a ...
The Holocaust in Austria was the systematic persecution, plunder and extermination of Jews by German and Austrian Nazis from 1938 to 1945. [1] Part of the wider- Holocaust , pervasive persecution of Jews was immediate after the German annexation of Austria, known as the Anschluss .
List of prisoner-of-war camps in Allied-occupied Germany; List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in Kenya; List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in the Soviet Union; List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in the United Kingdom; List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in the United States