Concentration Camps
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Concentration Camps
The chambers, the bodies, the prisoners.
Prisoner forced to
stand in one spot for a long period of time
as a punishment.
Prisoners standing during Roll Call
Confiscated Hair Brushes
Warehouse overflowing with clothes
Women’s hair, shaved before they were gassed, put in bundles to ship. Over 7,000 kilos were found in Auschwitz at liberation.
More hair, marked and labeled for shipping.
Ruins of a crematorium
Door of a gas chamber in Auschwitz.
Execution Wall
Human remains in a crematorium.
American soldiers executed SS Officers outside of the crematorium.
Prisoner subjected to low-pressure
experimentation. The Germans did
this to see how high of an altitude the
German pilots could go without passing out or having side
effects.
Dr. Shilling, here on trial, infected over 1,000 prisoners with Malaria. He was condemned to death and hung. Before he died, he asked if he could finish his
experiments and make notes of his observations for the sake of science.
Josef Mengele, German physician and SS captain. In
1943, he was named SS garrison physician of
Auschwitz. In that capacity, he was responsible for the
differentiation and selection of those fit to work and
those destined for gassing. Mengele also carried out
human experiments on camp inmates, especially twins.
A war crimes investigation photo of the disfigured leg of
a survivor from Ravensbrueck, Polish
political prisoner Helena Hegier (Rafalska), who was
subjected to medical experiments in 1942. This
photograph was entered as evidence for the prosecution
at the Medical Trial in Nuremberg. The disfiguring scars resulted from incisions made by medical personnel
that were purposely infected with bacteria, dirt, and
slivers of glass.
Prisoners digging their own graves.
Prisoners being shot.
Civilians being shot into their
grave.
Bodies found by Soviet war crimes investigators.
Funeral for prisoners who did not survive before the liberation of Auschwitz.
Children being kept alive in Birkenau are held behind barbed wire
fences.
Prisoners greeting liberators.
Ch. 6 reflection
• Why do you think this was being ignored by the allies for so long?
• As a Jew and a prisoner, how do you think they felt being liberated?
• How do you think they felt after they realized the allies had ignored the situation for so long?