Two photos, out of from Sobibor and other camps, show Demjanjuk, a German Holocaust research centre says.
About 1. Hardly any photos of Sobibor existed previously, so the find provides a wealth of new details about Nazi atrocities. The photos displayed by the Topography of Terror museum in Berlin belonged to former SS deputy commandant Johann Niemann, and were handed over by his grandson in Some photos show SS guards relaxing with alcohol and entertainment at Sobibor - not far from where Jews were being slaughtered. The photos chart Niemann's Nazi career, including places where disabled people were murdered, in the so-called T4 "euthanasia" programme, and the Sachsenhausen and Belzec camps.
Niemann was killed by an axe-wielding Jewish inmate during a prisoner uprising in October The SS later destroyed Sobibor to wipe out evidence of their mass murder. The photo presentation comes just a day after international commemorations for the 1. Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp 75 years ago.
Read more about the Holocaust:. Demjanjuk was found guilty in of involvement in the murders of 28, Jews at Sobibor. Dachau was built near Munich in Its first prisoners were Germans who opposed the Nazi regime, while its last inmates were SS officers awaiting trial in Jews were sent here in August To accommodate more people, almost other sub-camps were created throughout southern Germany and Austria, which were administered from Dachau.
After the war, Germans expelled from Eastern Europe were kept here as they awaited resettlement. Mauthausen was built in upper Austria in August , and was one of the first massive concentration camp complexes in Nazi Germany, and the last to be liberated by the Allies.
Unlike many other concentration camps, which were intended for all categories of prisoners, Mauthausen was mostly used for extermination through labour of the intelligentsia — educated people and members of the higher social classes in occupied countries. At its height, 95, international prisoners were kept here, requiring constant expansion throughout the war.
Prominent Jewish hostages were also sent to this camp to exchange them for German POWs, so it was never meant to become an extermination facility. Due to food and medical shortages, however, as well as unsanitary conditions and inadequate facilities, many died from starvation, disease, and lack of adequate care.
When the Allies liberated it in , they found some 13, corpses lying about. Buchenwald means beech forest , belying its horror, and was the first camp to be liberated by the western allies in WWII.
Set up in July , it was the also first camp built in Weimar, Germany, as well as the largest after Dachau. But in , they began medical experimentation on the inmates. In August , an Allied bombing raid hit the facility, killing and wounding some 2, German POWs watching footage of the concentration camps in In , the first Nazi concentration camp was built in Dachau, Germany to imprison dissidents. More than 1.
Camp commander Franz Ziereis centre with Heinrich Himmler left in the quarry during an inspection of the Mauthausen concentration camp. The prisoners were mostly used to dig tunnels for the underground factories that were being built in the area.
Mauthausen's best-known auxiliary camps were Gusen, Ebensee and Melk, where conditions were just as horrific. The total number of prisoners in Mauthausen is estimated at , of whom died. They included 38 Jews. The camp was liberated by the 11th armoured division of the US Army.
The commander of the concentration camp, Franz Ziereis , was shot while trying to escape, and subsequently died. See also: Testimony of Mr.
Artur R. From Radvanice near Ostrava he escaped to Poland. In Czech. The Mauthausen Memorial. Map and photographs of the camp. Horwitz , Gordon J. New York: Free Press,
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