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Overall
plan of the camp.
1. Camp, 2. Sand-pit (execution spot), 3. Gas chamber, 4.
Granite quarry. |
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| 2. |
Ex-commandant of the camp, SS Captain Josef Kramer.
[Photograph taken by the English upon liberation of the Bergen-Belsen
camp, at a time when Kramer was literally seen as “a fierce beast and
slaughterer”.] |
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| 3. |
General
view. |
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| 4. |
Electrified fence charged day and night with 380 volt alternating
current.
[The current was usually switched off during the day in other
concentration camps.] |
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| 5. |
Entrance
to the camp.
[A Maquis stands guard over new “internees”,
collaborators who immediately took the place of Liberated
prisoners.] |
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| 6 |
Bastinado
rack. [View from the front.] |
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| 7. |
Positioning of bastinado victim.
[View from the back.
Photographs 6 and 7 were taken in the (real) shower room, which
was adjacent to the incineration furnace room in the crematorium
hut.] |
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| 8. |
Gallows
for execution by hanging of internees suspected of attempting to escape; the
trap-door is closed. |
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| 9. |
Gallows
for execution by hanging; the trap-door is open. |
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| 10. |
Sand-pit
where patriots were executed by shooting. |
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| 11. |
Crematorium basement that was used for many assassinations by a
bullet in the nape of the neck.
P: Impact points of bullets fired
downwards at victims stretched out on the ground.
G: Water run-off
grill, below which a metal decanting basket containing putrefied blood and a
spent bullet, was found.
[This room, located just below the furnace,
was an underground morgue (Leichenkeller). A goods-lift, worked
by a handwinch, took the corpses up to the ground floor.] |
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