The horrors of German concentration camps. The most famous holocaust photo of course turned out to be fake.

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"The famous photograph was taken in the Buchenwald concentration camp, inside Block 56, by Private H. Miller, Civilian Signal Corps.USAApril 16, 1945 years, h five days after the liberation of the camp 6th Armored Division of the ArmyUSAApril 11, 1945. The photo has been published New York Times, May 6, 1945 in the article "The World Must Not Forget" with the caption "Overcrowded sleeping quarters in the prisoner camp at Buchenwald."

There is no need to think too much about why, five days after the liberation of the camp, the sleeping places were overcrowded and why in April the prisoners were lying naked. We can confidently explain this by the staged nature of the photograph.

In the photo in the article in newspaper New York Timesit is noticeable that the guy standing in the first photo has disappeared (or has not yet appeared, which is more likely tno). The original article can be downloaded for a small fee atonline newspaper archiveNew York Times,here's a link to that article.

Scanned photo from The New York Times Magazine, May 6, 1945

Looking closely at the first photo, you can see that the light falls on the bunks almost perpendicularly from a source located under the ceiling. The location of the source is best helped to determine the shadows from the bars, which are indicated by the blue arrows, and its height - the shadows, which are indicated by the yellow ones. However, the shadows from the person to the right and from the pillar next to him have a different direction, and they are not as deep as the shadows cast by the bunks and body parts of the prisoners! It turns out that a standing person is illuminated by another light source - less intense and located lower and closer to the photographer than the one that illuminates the bunk. A tThe sheet, which is thrown by the sleeve of the shirt on the foot of the prisoner, has a completely inadequate continuation on the floor.

However, the bloggers calculated the fraudulent photo not by the drawn shadows, but on the left shoulder of the person standing in front of a wooden beam, although the person is tilted as if leaning on something. Notice that his toes are flush with the edge of the bar while his shoulder is in front of him. Try yourself to take such a relaxed position - and nothing will work out for you, because you have to bend forward a lot! The edge of the arm from the elbow to the shoulder joint is inaccurately retouched - apparently in the original photograph this person was leaning on the wall, and when he was cut out, the hand turned out to be "chipped".

To hide such an obvious falsification, the photograph was simply cropped in the exposition of the museum in Buchenwald. This image was taken on January 29, 2012.

And when Obama was shown in the photo "Elie Wiesel" - the built-in man was completely cut off.

The name of the standing naked man - Simon Toncman. He is not a Jew, but a Frenchman; he ended up in the camp as a member of the Resistance movement. In this photo he is standing in the center,on his head is a French beret worn by the communists in the camp... Read how it was identified.Note that Toncman and some of the prisoners in both photos have well-groomed beards, while others are clean-shaven.

Jewish prisoners were isolated in Buchenwald in a special unit called "Small Camp", which was located at the bottom of the slope, near the gatehouse at the entrance to the camp. The "Small Camp" was separated from the rest of the Buchenwald camp by a barbed wire fence, built on a soccer field and used as a quarantine camp for Jewish prisoners who were evacuated from Auschwitz and other camps and taken to Buchenwald in the final months of the war.

Conditions inside the "Small Camp" were much worse than in the main part of the Buchenwald camp. Jews were forced to live in overcrowded barracks and the spread of disease rampant.

Communist political prisoners at one time, they snatched power in the camp from the “greens” (“greens” are ordinary criminals, they wore green triangles). Communists lived in good barracks near the gate, discriminated against Jewish prisoners and did not allow them to move to good hostels, even for a bribe. After the liberation of the camp, the Jews were not even allowed to attend the ceremonial rally, which was held by the communist prisoners near the gatehouse.

Buchenwald was primarily a camp for political prisoners. Jewish prisoners arrived there only after the camps located in Poland were closed due to the advance of the Red Army. In Buchenwald, Jews were immediately isolated and quarantined to prevent the spread of various diseases. Despite this, a typhus epidemic nevertheless broke out in the camp - half of all prisoners who died in Buchenwald during their entire existence died during the epidemic.

As you can see, the time difference between the two photographs in which Simon Toncman is "posing" is 5 days and he could only theoretically find himself in the Jewish block number 56, and even get naked there.

On April 27, 1940, the first concentration camp, Auschwitz, was created, intended for the mass extermination of people.

A concentration camp is a place for the forced isolation of real or perceived opponents of the state, political regime, etc. Unlike prisons, ordinary camps for prisoners of war and refugees, concentration camps were created by special decrees during the war, exacerbation of political struggle.

V fascist Germany concentration camps are an instrument of mass state terror and genocide. Although the term "concentration camp" was used to refer to all Nazi camps, in reality there were several types of camps, and the concentration camp was just one of them.

Other types of camps included labor and hard labor camps, extermination camps, transit camps, and prisoner of war camps. As the war progressed, the distinction between concentration camps and labor camps became increasingly blurred, as hard labor was also used in concentration camps.

Concentration camps in Nazi Germany were created after the Nazis came to power in order to isolate and repress opponents of the Nazi regime. The first concentration camp in Germany was established near Dachau in March 1933.

By the beginning of World War II, there were 300 thousand German, Austrian and Czech anti-fascists in prisons and concentration camps in Germany. In subsequent years Hitlerite Germany on the territory of its occupied European countries created a gigantic network of concentration camps, turned into places of organized systematic murder of millions of people.

Fascist concentration camps were intended for the physical destruction of entire peoples, primarily Slavic; total extermination of Jews and gypsies. For this they were equipped with gas chambers, gas chambers and other means of mass extermination of people, crematoria.

(Military encyclopedia. Chairman of the Main Editorial Commission S. Ivanov. Military Publishing House. Moscow. In 8 volumes - 2004 ISBN 5 - 203 01875 - 8)

There were even special death camps (extermination), where the elimination of prisoners proceeded at a continuous and accelerated pace. These camps were designed and built not as places of detention, but as factories of death. It was assumed that people doomed to death had to spend literally several hours in these camps. In such camps, a well-oiled conveyor was built, which turned into ash several thousand people a day. These include Majdanek, Auschwitz, Treblinka and others.

Concentration camp prisoners were deprived of their freedom and the ability to make decisions. The SS men strictly controlled all aspects of their life. Violators of the order were severely punished, subject to beatings, solitary confinement, deprivation of food and other forms of punishment. The prisoners were classified according to their place of birth and reasons for imprisonment.

Initially, the prisoners in the camps were divided into four groups: political opponents of the regime, representatives of the "lower races", criminals and "unreliable elements." The second group, including Roma and Jews, was subject to unconditional physical extermination and was kept in separate barracks.

They were subjected to the most cruel treatment by the SS guards, they were starved to death, and sent to the most grueling jobs. Among the political prisoners were members of anti-Nazi parties, primarily communists and social democrats, members of the Nazi party accused of serious crimes, listeners of foreign radio, members of various religious sects. Among the "unreliable" were homosexuals, alarmists, disaffected, etc.

There were also criminals in the concentration camps, who were used by the administration as overseers of political prisoners.

All concentration camp prisoners were required to wear decals on clothes, including serial number and a colored triangle ("winkel") on the left chest and right knee. (In Auschwitz, the serial number was tattooed on the left forearm.) All political prisoners wore a red triangle, criminals - green, "unreliable" - black, homosexuals - pink, gypsies - brown.

In addition to the classification triangle, the Jews also wore yellow, as well as the six-pointed "Star of David". A Jew who violated racial laws ("racial defiler") had to wear a black border around a green or yellow triangle.

Foreigners also had their own distinctive signs (the French wore the letter "F" sewn on, the Poles - "P", etc.). The letter "K" stood for a war criminal (Kriegsverbrecher), the letter "A" for a labor discipline violator (from German Arbeit - "work"). The weak-minded wore the Blid badge - "fool". Prisoners who participated or were suspected of escaping were required to wear a red and white target on their chest and back.

The total number of concentration camps, their branches, prisons, ghettos in the occupied countries of Europe and in Germany itself, where they were kept and destroyed in the most difficult conditions different methods and by means of people - 14,033 points.

Of the 18 million citizens of European countries who passed through camps for various purposes, including concentration camps, more than 11 million people were killed.

The system of concentration camps in Germany was eliminated along with the defeat of Hitlerism, condemned in the verdict of the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg as a crime against humanity.

At present, the FRG has adopted the division of places of forced detention of people during the Second World War into concentration camps and "other places of forced confinement, according to the conditions equated to concentration camps", in which, as a rule, forced labor was used.

The list of concentration camps includes approximately 1,650 names of concentration camps of the international classification (main and their external teams).

On the territory of Belarus, 21 camps were approved as "other places", on the territory of Ukraine - 27 camps, on the territory of Lithuania - 9, Latvia - 2 (Salaspils and Valmiera).

On the territory of the Russian Federation, places of compulsory detention in the city of Roslavl (camp 130), the settlement of Uritsky (camp 142) and Gatchina are recognized as "other places".

List of concentration camps recognized by the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany (1939-1945)

1.Arbeitsdorf (FRG)
2. Auschwitz / Auschwitz-Birkenau (Poland)
3. Bergen-Belsen (Germany)
4. Buchenwald (Germany)
5. Warsaw (Poland)
6. Herzogenbusch (Netherlands)
7. Gross-Rosen (Germany)
8. Dachau (Germany)
9.Kauen / Kaunas (Lithuania)
10. Krakow-Plaszczow (Poland)
11. Sachsenhausen (GDR-FRG)
12. Lublin / Majdanek (Poland)
13. Mauthausen (Austria)
14. Mittelbau-Dora (Germany)
15. Natzweiler (France)
16. Neyengamme (FRG)
17. Niederhagen-Wewelsburg (Germany)
18. Ravensbrück (Germany)
19. Riga-Kaiserwald (Latvia)
20. Faifara / Vaivara (Estonia)
21. Flossenburg (FRG)
22. Stutthof (Poland).

Largest Nazi concentration camps

Buchenwald is one of the largest Nazi concentration camps. It was created in 1937 in the vicinity of the city of Weimar (Germany). It was originally called Ettersberg. Had 66 branches and external work teams. The largest ones are Dora (near Nordhausen), Laura (near Saalfeld) and Ohrdruf (in Thuringia), where FAU projectiles were mounted. From 1937 to 1945 about 239 thousand people were prisoners of the camp. A total of 56 thousand prisoners of 18 nationalities were tortured in Buchenwald.

The camp was liberated on April 10, 1945 by units of the 80th US Division. Opened in 1958 in Buchenwald memorial Complex dedicated. to the heroes and victims of the concentration camp.

Auschwitz-Birkenau, also known under the German names Auschwitz or Auschwitz-Birkenau, is a complex of German concentration camps located in 1940-1945. in the south of Poland, 60 km west of Krakow. The complex consisted of three main camps: Auschwitz-1 (served administrative center the entire complex), Auschwitz II (also known as Birkenau, the "death camp"), Auschwitz 3 (a group of about 45 small camps set up in factories and mines around the common complex).

More than 4 million people died in Auschwitz, including more than 1.2 million Jews, 140 thousand Poles, 20 thousand Roma, 10 thousand Soviet prisoners of war and tens of thousands of prisoners of other nationalities.

On January 27, 1945, Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz. In 1947, the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum (Auschwitz-Brzezinka) was opened in Auschwitz.

Dachau (Dachau) - the first concentration camp in Nazi Germany, established in 1933 on the outskirts of Dachau (near Munich). Had about 130 branches and external work teams located in southern Germany. More than 250 thousand people from 24 countries were prisoners of Dachau; tortured or killed about 70 thousand people (including about 12 thousand Soviet citizens).

In 1960, a monument to the victims was unveiled in Dachau.

Majdanek (Majdanek) - German-fascist concentration camp, was created in the suburbs of the Polish city of Lublin in 1941. It had branches in southeastern Poland: Budzyn (near Krasnik), Plaszow (near Krakow), Trawniki (near Vepsh), two camps in Lublin. According to the Nuremberg trials, in 1941-1944. in the camp, the Nazis killed about 1.5 million people of various nationalities. The camp was liberated Soviet troops July 23, 1944 In 1947 a museum and research institute was opened in Majdanek.

Treblinka - German fascist concentration camps near the station. Treblinka in the Warsaw Voivodeship of Poland. In Treblinka I (1941-1944, the so-called labor camp), about 10 thousand people died, in Treblinka II (1942-1943, extermination camp) - about 800 thousand people (mostly Jews). In August 1943, in Treblinka II, the Nazis suppressed a prisoner uprising, after which the camp was liquidated. Camp Treblinka I was liquidated in July 1944 when Soviet troops approached.

In 1964, on the site of Treblinka II, a memorial symbolic cemetery for the victims of the Nazi terror was opened: 17 thousand tombstones made of stones of irregular shape, a monument-mausoleum.

Ravensbruck - A concentration camp was founded near Fürstenberg in 1938 as an exclusively female concentration camp, but later a small camp was created nearby for men and another for girls. In 1939-1945. 132 thousand women and several hundred children from 23 European countries passed through the death camp. 93 thousand people were killed. On April 30, 1945, the prisoners of Ravensbrück were liberated by the soldiers of the Soviet army.

Mauthausen - the concentration camp was established in July 1938, 4 km from Mauthausen (Austria) as a branch of the Dachau concentration camp. Since March 1939 - an independent camp. In 1940 it was merged with the Gusen concentration camp and became known as Mauthausen-Gusen. He had about 50 branches scattered throughout the territory of the former Austria (Ostmark). During the existence of the camp (until May 1945) there were about 335 thousand people from 15 countries. According to the surviving records alone, more than 122 thousand people were killed in the camp, including more than 32 thousand Soviet citizens. The camp was liberated on May 5, 1945 by American troops.

After the war, on the site of Mauthausen 12 states, incl. The Soviet Union, a memorial museum was created, monuments to those killed in the camp were erected.

These photographs show the life and martyrdom of Nazi concentration camp prisoners. Some of these photos can be traumatic. Therefore, we ask children and mentally unstable people to refrain from viewing these photos.

Prisoners of the Flossenburg death camp after being liberated by the 97th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army in May 1945. An emaciated prisoner in the center - a 23-year-old Czech - is sick with dysentery.

Concentration camp prisoners in Ampfing after liberation.

View of the concentration camp at Grini in Norway.

Soviet prisoners of war in the Lamsdorf concentration camp (Stalag VIII-B, now the Polish village of Lambinowice.

The bodies of the executed SS guards at the observation tower "B" of the Dachau concentration camp.

View of the barracks of the Dachau concentration camp.

Soldiers from the 45th US Infantry Division show Hitler Youth teenagers the bodies of prisoners in a carriage at the Dachau concentration camp.

View of the Buchenwald barrack after the liberation of the camp.

American generals George Patton, Omar Bradley and Dwight Eisenhower in the Ohrdruf concentration camp near the fire, where the bodies of the prisoners were burned by the Germans.

Soviet prisoners of war in the Stalag XVIIIA concentration camp.

Soviet prisoners of war eat at the Stalag XVIIIA concentration camp.

Soviet prisoners of war at the barbed wire of the Stalag XVIIIA concentration camp.

Soviet prisoner of war at the barracks of the Stalag XVIIIA concentration camp.

British prisoners of war on the stage of the Stalag XVIIIA concentration camp theater.

Captured British corporal Eric Evans with three comrades in the Stalag XVIIIA concentration camp.

The burnt bodies of prisoners from the Ohrdruf concentration camp.

The bodies of the prisoners of the Buchenwald concentration camp.

Women from the SS guard of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp unload the corpses of prisoners for burial in mass grave... They were attracted to this work by the allies who liberated the camp. Around the moat is a convoy of British soldiers. Former security guards are prohibited from using gloves as a punishment to put them at risk of contracting typhus.

Six British prisoners at the Stalag XVIIIA concentration camp.

Soviet prisoners talk with a German officer in the Stalag XVIIIA concentration camp.

Soviet prisoners of war dress up in the Stalag XVIIIA concentration camp.

Group photo of Allied prisoners (British, Australians and New Zealanders) at the Stalag XVIIIA concentration camp.

The band of captive allies (Australians, British and New Zealanders) on the territory of the Stalag XVIIIA concentration camp.

Captured Allied soldiers play Two Up with cigarettes at the Stalag 383 concentration camp.

Two British prisoners at the barrack wall of the Stalag 383 concentration camp.

A German soldier-escort at the market of the Stalag 383 concentration camp, surrounded by captured allies.

A group photo of Allied prisoners at the Stalag 383 concentration camp on Christmas Day 1943.

The barrack of the Vollan concentration camp in the Norwegian city of Trondheim after liberation.

A group of Soviet prisoners of war outside the gates of the Norwegian concentration camp Falstad after liberation.

SS Oberscharfuehrer Erich Weber on vacation in the commandant's office of the Norwegian concentration camp Falstad.

The commandant of the Norwegian concentration camp Falstad, SS Haupscharführer Karl Denk (left) and SS Oberscharführer Erich Weber (right) in the commandant's room.

Five freed prisoners of the Falstadt concentration camp at the gates.

Prisoners of the Norwegian concentration camp Falstad on vacation during a break in the field.

Falshtad concentration camp employee SS Oberscharfuehrer Erich Weber

Non-commissioned officers of the SS K. Denk, E. Weber and sergeant major of the Luftwaffe R. Weber with two women in the commandant's room of the Norwegian concentration camp Falstad.

Employee of the Norwegian concentration camp Falstad Oberscharführer SS Erich Weber in the kitchen of the commandant's house.

Soviet, Norwegian and Yugoslavian prisoners of the Falstad concentration camp on vacation at a felling.

The head of the women's block of the Norwegian Falstad concentration camp, Maria Robbe, with the police at the camp gates.

Prisoners Soviet soldiers in the camp at the beginning of the war.

January 27, 2015 3:30 pm

On January 27, the world celebrates 70 years since liberation Soviet army Nazi concentration camp "Auschwitz-Birkenau" (Auschwitz), where from 1941 to 1945, according to official figures, 1.4 million people died, of which about 1.1 million were Jews. The photographs below, published by Photochronograph, show the life and martyrdom of prisoners in Auschwitz and other concentration camps of death, created in the territory controlled by Nazi Germany.

Some of these photos can be traumatic. Therefore, we ask children and people with an unstable psyche to refrain from viewing these photos.

Sending Slovak Jews to the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Arrival of a train with new prisoners to the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Arrival of prisoners at the Auschwitz concentration camp. The inmates gather centrally on the platform.

Arrival of prisoners at the Auschwitz concentration camp. First stage of selection. It was necessary to divide the prisoners into two columns, separating men from women and children.

Arrival of prisoners at the Auschwitz concentration camp. The guards form a column of prisoners.

Rabbis in the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Railroad tracks leading to the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Registration photographs of children prisoners of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Prisoners of the Auschwitz-Monowitz concentration camp at the construction of a chemical plant by the German concern I.G. Farbenindustrie AG

The liberation of the surviving prisoners of the Auschwitz concentration camp by Soviet soldiers.

Soviet soldiers examine children's clothes found in the Auschwitz concentration camp.

A group of children released from the Auschwitz concentration camp (Auschwitz). In total, about 7,500 people were released in the camp, including children. The Germans managed to take about 50 thousand prisoners from Auschwitz to other camps before the approach of the Red Army.

Liberated children, prisoners of the Auschwitz concentration camp (Auschwitz), show camp numbers tattooed on their arms.

Liberated children from the Auschwitz concentration camp.

A portrait of prisoners of the Auschwitz concentration camp after its liberation by Soviet troops.

Aerial photography of the northwestern part of the Auschwitz concentration camp with the main objects of the camp marked: the railway station and the Auschwitz I camp.

Liberated Austrian concentration camp prisoners at an American military hospital.

The clothes of the concentration camp prisoners, abandoned after the liberation in April 1945.

American soldiers inspect the mass execution site of 250 Polish and French prisoners in a concentration camp near Leipzig on April 19, 1945.

A Ukrainian girl released from a concentration camp in Salzburg, Austria, cooks food on a small stove.

Prisoners of the Flossenburg death camp after being liberated by the 97th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army in May 1945. An emaciated prisoner in the center - a 23-year-old Czech - is sick with dysentery. The Flossenburg camp was located in Bavaria near the city of the same name on the border with the Czech Republic. It was created in May 1938. During the existence of the camp, about 96 thousand prisoners passed through it, of which more than 30 thousand died in the camp.

Concentration camp prisoners in Ampfing after liberation.

View of the concentration camp at Grini in Norway.

Soviet prisoners of war in the Lamsdorf concentration camp (Stalag VIII-B, now the Polish village of Lambinowice).

The bodies of the executed SS guards at the observation tower "B" of the Dachau concentration camp.

Dachau is one of the first concentration camps in Germany. Founded by the Nazis in March 1933. The camp was located in southern Germany, 16 kilometers northwest of Munich. The number of prisoners held in Dachau from 1933 to 1945 exceeds 188,000. The death toll in the main camp and in the subcamps from January 1940 to May 1945 was at least 28,000.

View of the barracks of the Dachau concentration camp.

Soldiers from the 45th US Infantry Division show the Hitler Youth teenagers the bodies of prisoners in a carriage at the Dachau concentration camp.

View of the Buchenwald barrack after the liberation of the camp.

American generals George Patton, Omar Bradley and Dwight Eisenhower in the Ohrdruf concentration camp near the fire, where the bodies of the prisoners were burned by the Germans.

Soviet prisoners of war in the Stalag XVIIIA concentration camp.

The Stalag XVIIIA POW camp was located near the town of Wolfsberg (Austria). The camp contained about 30 thousand people: 10 thousand British and 20 thousand Soviet prisoners. Soviet prisoners were isolated in a separate zone and did not intersect with other prisoners. In the English part of the ethnic English were only half, about 40 percent - Australians, the rest - Canadians, New Zealanders (including 320 Maori aborigines) and other natives of the colonies. Other nations in the camp included the French, downed American pilots. A feature of the camp was the liberal attitude of the administration towards the presence of cameras by the British (this did not apply to Soviet ones). Thanks to this, an impressive archive of photographs of life in the camp, made from the inside, that is, by the people who sat in it, has reached the present time.

Soviet prisoners of war eat at the Stalag XVIIIA concentration camp.

Soviet prisoners of war at the barbed wire of the Stalag XVIIIA concentration camp.

Soviet prisoners of war at the barracks of the Stalag XVIIIA concentration camp.

British prisoners of war on the stage of the Stalag XVIIIA concentration camp theater.

Captured British corporal Eric Evans with three comrades in the Stalag XVIIIA concentration camp.

The burnt bodies of prisoners of the Ohrdruf concentration camp. The Ohrdruf Concentration Camp was established in November 1944. During the war years, about 11,700 people died in the camp. Ohrdruf became the first concentration camp liberated by the US Army.

The bodies of the prisoners of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Buchenwald is one of the largest concentration camps in Germany, located near Weimar in Thuringia. From July 1937 to April 1945, about 250 thousand people were imprisoned in the camp. The number of victims of the camp is estimated at about 56 thousand prisoners.

Women from the SS guards of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp unload the corpses of prisoners for burial in a mass grave. They were attracted to this work by the allies who liberated the camp. Around the moat is a convoy of British soldiers. Former security guards are prohibited from using gloves as a punishment to put them at risk of contracting typhus.

Bergen-Belsen is a Nazi concentration camp located in the province of Hanover (now the territory of the state of Lower Saxony) a mile from the village of Belsen and a few miles southwest of the city of Bergen. There were no gas chambers in the camp. But in 1943-1945, about 50 thousand prisoners died here, over 35 thousand of them - from typhus a few months before the liberation of the camp. The total number of victims is about 70 thousand prisoners.

Six British prisoners at the Stalag XVIIIA concentration camp.

Soviet prisoners talk with a German officer in the Stalag XVIIIA concentration camp.

Soviet prisoners of war dress up in the Stalag XVIIIA concentration camp.

Group photo of Allied prisoners (British, Australians and New Zealanders) at the Stalag XVIIIA concentration camp.

The band of captive allies (Australians, British and New Zealanders) on the territory of the Stalag XVIIIA concentration camp.

Captured Allied soldiers play Two Up with cigarettes at the Stalag 383 concentration camp.

Two British prisoners at the barrack wall of the Stalag 383 concentration camp.

A German soldier-escort at the market of the Stalag 383 concentration camp, surrounded by captured allies.

A group photo of Allied prisoners at the Stalag 383 concentration camp on Christmas Day 1943.

The barrack of the Vollan concentration camp in the Norwegian city of Trondheim after liberation.

A group of Soviet prisoners of war outside the gates of the Norwegian concentration camp Falstad after liberation. Falstad was a Nazi concentration camp in Norway located in the village of Eckne near Levanger. Created in September 1941. The number of deceased prisoners is more than 200 people.

SS Oberscharfuehrer Erich Weber on vacation in the commandant's office of the Norwegian concentration camp Falstad.

The commandant of the Norwegian concentration camp Falstad, SS Haupscharführer Karl Denk, left, and SS Oberscharführer Erich Weber, right, in the commandant’s room.

Five freed prisoners of the Falstad concentration camp at the gates.

Prisoners of the Norwegian concentration camp Falstad on vacation during a break in the field.

Employee of the Falstad concentration camp, SS Oberscharführer Erich Weber.

Non-commissioned officers of the SS K. Denk, E. Weber and sergeant major of the Luftwaffe R. Weber with two women in the commandant's room of the Norwegian concentration camp Falstad.

Employee of the Norwegian concentration camp Falstad SS Obersturmführer Erich Weber in the kitchen of the commandant's house.

Soviet, Norwegian and Yugoslavian prisoners of the Falstad concentration camp on vacation at a felling.

The head of the women's block of the Norwegian Falstad concentration camp, Maria Robbe, with the police at the camp gates.

A group of Soviet prisoners of war on the territory of the Norwegian Falstad concentration camp after liberation.

Seven guards from the Norwegian Falstad concentration camp at the main gate.

A panorama of the Norwegian concentration camp Falstad after liberation.

Black French prisoners at Frontstalag 155 in the village of Lonvik.

Black French prisoners wash clothes at the Frontstalag 155 camp in the village of Lonvik.

Members of the Warsaw Uprising from the Home Army in the barracks of a concentration camp near the German village of Oberlangen.

The body of a shot SS guard in the canal near the Dachau concentration camp.

Two American soldiers and a former prisoner retrieve the body of a shot SS guard from a canal outside the Dachau concentration camp.

A column of prisoners from the Norwegian Falstad concentration camp marches in the courtyard of the main building.

Emaciated Hungarian prisoner freed from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

The liberated prisoner of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp who contracted typhus in one of the camp barracks.

Prisoners demonstrate the process of destruction of corpses in the crematorium of the Dachau concentration camp.

Red Army prisoners who died of hunger and cold. The POW camp was located in the village of Bolshaya Rossoshka near Stalingrad.

The body of an Ohrdruf concentration camp guard killed by prisoners or American soldiers.

Prisoners in the barrack of the Ebensee concentration camp.

Irma Grese and Joseph Kramer in the courtyard of the prison in the German city of Celle. The head of the labor service of the women's block of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Irma Grese, and his commandant, SS Hauptsturmführer (captain) Josef Kramer, under British escort in the courtyard of the prison in Celle, Germany.

Girl-prisoner of the Croatian concentration camp Jasenovac.

Soviet prisoners of war carrying construction elements for the barracks of the Stalag 304 camp in Zeithain.

Surrendered SS Untersturmführer Heinrich Wicker (later shot by American soldiers) at the carriage with the bodies of prisoners of the Dachau concentration camp. Second from left is Red Cross representative Victor Mayrer.

A man in civilian clothes stands near the bodies of prisoners of the Buchenwald concentration camp.
In the background, Christmas wreaths hang near the windows.

Liberated British and Americans stand on the territory of the Dyulag-Luft prisoner of war camp in Wetzlar, Germany.

Released prisoners from the Nordhausen death camp sit on the porch.

Prisoners of the Gardelegen concentration camp, killed by guards shortly before the liberation of the camp.

In the back of the trailer are the corpses of the Buchenwald concentration camp prisoners, prepared for incineration in the crematorium.

American generals (right to left) Dwight D. Eisenhower, Omar Bradley and George Patton watch a torture demonstration at the Gotha concentration camp.

Mountains of clothing for prisoners of the Dachau concentration camp.

Released seven-year-old prisoner of the Buchenwald concentration camp in line before being sent to Switzerland.

Prisoners of the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp in formation.

The Sachsenhausen camp was located near the city of Oranienburg in Germany. Created in July 1936. The number of prisoners in different years reached 60 thousand people. On the territory of Sachsenhausen, according to some sources, more than 100 thousand prisoners died in various ways.

Soviet prisoner of war released from the Saltfjellet concentration camp in Norway.

Soviet prisoners of war in a barrack after being released from the Saltfjellet concentration camp in Norway.

A Soviet prisoner of war leaves a barrack in the Saltfjellet concentration camp in Norway.

Women liberated by the Red Army from the Ravensbrück concentration camp, 90 kilometers north of Berlin. Ravensbrück is a concentration camp of the Third Reich, located in northeastern Germany, 90 kilometers north of Berlin. It existed from May 1939 to the end of April 1945. The largest female concentration camp of the Nazis. The number of registered prisoners for the entire period of its existence amounted to more than 130 thousand people. According to official data, 90,000 prisoners died here.

German officers and civilians walk past a group of Soviet prisoners during an inspection of a concentration camp.

Soviet prisoners of war in the camp in the ranks during the verification.

Captured Soviet soldiers in the camp at the beginning of the war.

The captured Red Army soldiers enter the camp barracks.

Four Polish prisoners of the Oberlangen concentration camp (Oberlangen, Stalag VI C) after liberation. Women were among the surrendering Warsaw rebels.

The orchestra of prisoners from the Yanovsk concentration camp performs "Tango of Death". On the eve of the liberation of Lviv by the Red Army, the Germans formed a circle of 40 people from the orchestra. The camp guards surrounded the musicians with a tight ring and ordered them to play. First, the conductor of the orchestra Mund was executed, then, by order of the commandant, each orchestra member went to the center of the circle, put his instrument on the ground and stripped naked, after which he was killed with a shot in the head.

The Ustashs execute prisoners in the Jasenovac concentration camp. Jasenovac is a death camp system created by the Ustashas (Croatian Nazis) in August 1941. It was located on the territory of the Independent Croatian State, which collaborated with Nazi Germany, 60 kilometers from Zagreb. There is no consensus on the number of victims of Jasenovac. While the official Yugoslav authorities during the existence of this state supported the version of 840 thousand victims, according to the calculations of the Croatian historian Vladimir Zherevich, their number was 83 thousand, the Serbian historian Bogolyub Kočovic - 70 thousand. The Memorial Museum in Jasenovac contains information on 75,159 victims, and the Holocaust Memorial Museum speaks of 56-97 thousand victims.

Soviet children, prisoners of the 6th Finnish concentration camp in Petrozavodsk. During the occupation of Soviet Karelia by the Finns, six concentration camps were created in Petrozavodsk to contain local Russian-speaking residents. Camp 6 was located in the area of ​​the Transshipment Exchange, it held 7000 people.

Jewish woman with her daughter after being released from a German forced labor camp.

The corpses of Soviet citizens found on the territory of the Nazi concentration camp in Darnitsa. District of Kiev, November 1943.

General Eisenhower and other American officers look at the executed prisoners of the Ohrdruf concentration camp.

The deceased prisoners of the Ohrdruf concentration camp.

Representatives of the Prosecutor's Office of the Estonian SSR at the bodies of the dead prisoners of the Klooga concentration camp. The Klooga concentration camp was located in Harju County, Keila Volost (35 kilometers from Tallinn).

Soviet child next to his murdered mother. Concentration camp for the civilian population "Ozarichi". Belarus, the town of Ozarichi, Domanovichi district, Polesie region.

Soldiers from the 157th American Infantry Regiment shoot the SS guards from the German concentration camp Dachau.

Concentration camp inmate Webbelin burst into tears upon learning that he was not included in the first group of prisoners to go to the hospital upon release.

Residents of the German city of Weimar in the Buchenwald concentration camp at the bodies of the dead prisoners. The Americans brought the residents of Weimar to the camp near Buchenwald, most of whom said they knew nothing about this camp.

Unidentified guard at the Buchenwald concentration camp, beaten and hanged by prisoners.

Guards of the Buchenwald concentration camp beaten by prisoners in the punishment cell on their knees.

Unidentified guard of Buchenwald concentration camp beaten by prisoners.

Servicemen of the medical service of the 20th corps of the US Third Army at the trailer with the corpses of prisoners of the Buchenwald concentration camp.

The bodies of prisoners who died on the train on the way to the Dachau concentration camp.

Liberated prisoners in one of the Ebensee camp barracks, two days after the advance of the 80th US Infantry Division arrived.

One of the emaciated inmates of the Ebensee camp is basking in the sun. The Ebensee concentration camp was located 40 kilometers from Salzburg (Austria). The camp existed from November 1943 to May 6, 1945. For 18 months, thousands of prisoners passed through it, many of whom died here. The names of 7113 victims of inhuman detention are known. The total number of victims is more than 8200 people.

Released from the Eselheide camp, Soviet prisoners of war swing in the arms of an American soldier.
In camp No. 326 Eselheide, about 30 thousand Soviet prisoners of war were killed; in April 1945, the surviving Red Army soldiers were liberated by units of the US 9th Army.

French Jews in the Drancy transit camp before being sent to German concentration camps.

Guards at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp load the bodies of deceased prisoners into a truck escorted by British soldiers.

Odilo Globocnik (far right) visits the Sobibor extermination camp, which operated from May 15, 1942 to October 15, 1943. About 250 thousand Jews were killed here.

The corpse of a prisoner of the Dachau concentration camp, found by Allied soldiers in a railway carriage near the camp.

Human remains in the furnace of the Stutthof concentration camp crematorium. Location: surroundings of Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland).

Hungarian actress Livia Nador, liberated from the Gusen concentration camp by soldiers of the US 11th Panzer Division near Linz, Austria.

A German boy walks along a dirt road, on the side of which lie the corpses of hundreds of prisoners who died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany.

The arrest of the commandant of the Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen Joseph Kramer by the British troops. He was subsequently sentenced to death penalty and on 13 December he was hanged in the Hameln prison.

Children behind barbed wire in the Buchenwald concentration camp after its release.

Soviet prisoners of war are disinfected in the German prisoner of war camp Zeithain.

Prisoners during roll call at the Buchenwald concentration camp.

Polish Jews await execution under guard German soldiers in a ravine. Presumably from the Belzec or Sobibor camp.

The surviving Buchenwald prisoner drinks water in front of the concentration camp barracks.

British soldiers inspect the crematorium oven in the liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

Liberated child prisoners from Buchenwald emerge from the camp gates.

German prisoners of war are led through the Majdanek concentration camp. In front of the prisoners on the ground lie the remains of the prisoners of the death camp, the ovens of the crematorium are also visible. The Majdanek death camp was located on the outskirts of the Polish city of Lublin. In total, about 150 thousand prisoners visited here, about 80 thousand were killed, 60 thousand of them were Jews. The mass extermination of people in the gas chambers in the camp began in 1942. At first, carbon monoxide ( carbon monoxide), and since April 1942, Cyclone B. Majdanek is one of the two death camps of the Third Reich, where this gas was used (the second is Auschwitz).

Soviet prisoners of war in the Zeithain camp are disinfected before being sent to Belgium.

Mauthausen prisoners look at an SS officer.

Death march from the Dachau concentration camp.

Prisoners in forced labor. Quarry "Weiner Graben" in the Mauthausen concentration camp, Austria.

Representatives of the Prosecutor's Office of the Estonian SSR at the bodies of the dead prisoners of the Klooga concentration camp.

The arrested commandant of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Joseph Kramer, in shackles and guarded by an English escort. Nicknamed the "Belsen Beast", Kramer was convicted by an English court of war crimes and in December 1945 was hanged in a prison in Hameln.

The bones of the killed prisoners of the Majdanek concentration camp (Lublin, Poland).

The furnace of the crematorium of the Majdanek concentration camp (Lublin, Poland). Left Lieutenant A.A. Guivik.

Lieutenant A.A. Guivik is holding the remains of prisoners of the Majdanek concentration camp.

A column of prisoners from the Dachau concentration camp on the march in the suburbs of Munich.

A young man liberated from the Mauthausen camp.

The corpse of a prisoner of the Leipzig-Tekla concentration camp on barbed wire.

Remains of prisoners in the crematorium of the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar.

One of 150 prisoners killed in the Gardelegen concentration camp.

In April 1945, in the Gardelegen concentration camp, the SS men drove about 1,100 prisoners into a barn and set them on fire. Some of the victims tried to escape but were shot and killed by the guards.

Meeting of the Americans - the liberators of the Mauthausen concentration camp.

Residents of the city of Ludwigslust walk past the bodies of prisoners of the same name concentration camp for prisoners of war. The bodies of the victims were found by servicemen of the American 82nd Airborne Division. The bodies were found in pits in the camp courtyard and in the interior. By order of the Americans, the civilian population of the area was obliged to come to the camp to get acquainted with the results of the crimes of the Nazis.

Workers of the Dora-Mittelbau camp, killed by the Nazis. Dora-Mittelbau (other names: Dora, Nordhausen) - Nazi concentration camp, formed on August 28, 1943, 5 kilometers from the city of Nordhausen in Thuringia, Germany, as a subdivision of the already existing Buchenwald camp. For 18 months of its existence, 60 thousand prisoners of 21 nationalities passed through the camp, approximately 20 thousand died in custody.

American generals Patton, Bradley, Eisenhower in the Ohrdruf concentration camp near the fire, where the bodies of prisoners were burned by the Germans.

Soviet prisoners of war freed by the Americans from a camp near the French town of Sarreguemines bordering Germany.

The victim's hand is deeply burned by phosphorus. The experiment consisted of setting fire to a mixture of phosphorus and rubber on the skin of a living person.

Liberated prisoners of the Ravensbrück concentration camp.

Liberated prisoners of the Buchenwald concentration camp.

Soviet prisoner of war, after complete liberation by the American troops of the Buchenwald camp, points to the former guard who brutally beat the prisoners.

SS soldiers lined up on the parade ground of the Plaszów concentration camp.

Former guard of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp F. Herzog dismantles a pile of prisoners' corpses.

Soviet prisoners of war freed by the Americans from the Eselheide camp.

A pile of corpses of prisoners in the crematorium of the Dachau concentration camp.

A pile of corpses of prisoners in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

The corpses of prisoners of the Lambach concentration camp in the forest before burial.

A French prisoner of the Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp on the floor of a barrack among his dead comrades.

Soldiers from the American 42nd Infantry Division at the car with the bodies of prisoners of the Dachau concentration camp.

Prisoners of the Ebensee concentration camp.

The corpses of prisoners in the courtyard of the Dora-Mittelbau camp.

Prisoners of the German concentration camp Webbelin await medical attention.

Camp inmate Dora-Mittelbau (Nordhausen) shows an American soldier the camp crematorium.

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Terrible footage from the Nazi death camps.

With the rise of Hitler to power, the mass murder of civilians became part of the policy of Nazi Germany. The Fuhrer pursued a policy of "final solution to the issue" in relation to the Jews, he believed that they should be exterminated. Death squads massacred more than a million people, and later concentration camps emerged, where prisoners were held in dire conditions. Salvation for these people was brought only by the victory over fascism in World War II.

1. The horrors of the German concentration camp

General Patch's 12th Armored Division, paving the way to the Austrian border, stumbled upon the horrors of a German concentration camp.

2. An attempt to escape ended in death

The corpse of a prisoner lies on a barbed wire fence in Leipzig-Thekla.

3. Victims of monstrous experiments

Victims of Nazi medical experiments who were taken into the woods by order of the Americans.

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4. Extermination

A young man sits on an overturned stool next to a burnt body in Thekla camp.

5. Victims of Nazism

The burnt bodies of political prisoners lie at the entrance to a barn in Gardelegen.

6. On the territory of Dora-Mittelbau

Dead bodies found by soldiers of the US Third Armored Division in the German concentration camp at Nordhausen.

7. Slaughterhouse in Dachau

When American troops freed the prisoners at the Dachau camp, forty German guards were killed by the prisoners.

8. Liberation of Landsberg

Lt. Col. Ed Sayler from Louisville stands among the remains of the Holocaust victims.

9. Miraculously survivors

Exhausted and emaciated prisoners in the Ebensee concentration camp.

10. "Crime and Punishment"

The released prisoner points to the former camp guard who shot the prisoners.

11. Dead prisoners

Dead bodies found at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after British forces liberated the camp.