Map of the KL Auschwitz interest zone from February 1941
The map of the "KL Auschwitz interest zone" from February 1941. There is also a design of the so-called Schutzhaftlagererweiterung, camp in Birkenau and (marked in red) the side-track of the camp running from the train station in Oświęcim.
Jews from Subcarpathian Rus undergo a selection on the ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Pictured in front holding a riding crop may be either SS Unterscharfuehrer Wilhelm Emmerich or SS Haupsturmfuehrer Georg Hoecker assisted by the Jewish prisoner Hans Schorr. Also pictured are Norbert Lopper and Irena Fogel (later Weiss) is pictured in the front second from left, facing forward. Pictured in the front right is Erszebet Klein Roth, her mother and aunt.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Yad Vashem (Public Domain)
An aerial reconnaissance photograph of the Auschwitz concentration camp showing the Auschwitz III (Buna plant).
One of a series of aerial photographs taken by Allied reconnaissance units under the command of the 15th U.S. Army Air Force during missions dating between April 4, 1944 and January 14, 1945. The photos were used to plan bombing raids, determine the accuracy of bombing sorties, or make damage assessments. A typical sortie employed two cameras equipped with lenses of different focal lengths. After the war the Auschwitz reconnaissance photographs were stored in the archives of the Defense Intelligence Agency (Washington, D.C.) until they were rediscovered in 1978 by two CIA photo analysts, Dino Brugioni and Robert Poirer. The photographs were later declassified and transferred to the National Archives, where they became RG 373. A selection of images were enlarged and annotated with identifying labels by the CIA in 1978.
National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
Belgian worker in the winding shop of the Siemens works, where enameled wires are wound onto spools
Horrible examples of Nazi brutality found by American 3rd Armd [sic] Div., FUSA when it captured the German slave labor camp at Nordhausen ... American medics place an almost-dead German slave in an ambulance / Roberts.
American medics place an almost-dead German slave in an ambulance
Bundesarchiv Bild 183-S68015, französischer Mechaniker bei Siemens.jpg
French Mechanic at Siemens ADN-Zentralbild Archive – World War II (1939–45): A young French mechanic is forced to work as conscripted labor in the Siemens factories in Berlin, contributing to the German fascists' armaments production (1943). 821-43 Scherl Picture Service, Siemens Company Photograph
Historical map showing the Auschwitz I concentration camp during 1940
Ferdinand Porsche unveiling " Volkswagen" concept. Adolf Hitler admires a model of the Volkswagen car and is amused to find the engine in the boot. To the right are Korpsfuhrer Adolf Hühnlein, Robert Ley, Rudolf Schmeer, and Jakob Werlin
Berlin, 14-jähriger Ukrainer Zwangsarbeiter
A 14-year-old youth from Ukraine is forced to repair damaged and disabled vehicles at a motor vehicle repair facility of the German Wehrmacht in Berlin.
ADN-Zentralbild Archive – World War II (1939–45): Forced laborers from the Soviet Union are compelled to work for the fascist German armaments industry. Caption: A 14-year-old youth from Ukraine is forced to repair damaged and disabled vehicles at a motor vehicle repair facility of the German Wehrmacht in Berlin. January 1945. Photo: Pips Plenik
KZ Mauthausen, Häftlinge im Steinbruch (Mauthausen Concentration Camp, Prisoners in the Quarry)
Mauthausen Concentration Camp, Prisoners in the Quarry
Nazi German death camp Mauthausen (after 1940). A photograph taken by the SS of members of the Mauthausen concentration camp's punishment company being used as "stone carriers" in the camp's own quarry (the so-called "Wiener Graben"). During this most dangerous work in the Mauthausen concentration camp, they get caught under the wheels of goods lorries or fall over the stairs while working as "stone carriers", which they often have to climb while running and being beaten. Falling prisoners drag others with them to their deaths (cf. description at Verein für Gedenken und Geschichtsforschung in österreichischen KZ-Gedenkstätten: Der Tatort Mauthausen. Eine Spurensuche – The Crime Scenes of Mauthausen. Searching for Traces. Vienna 2014,