2. FASCIST GERMANY

LEGACIES OF THE THOUSAND YEAR REICH

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DUNKERQUE 1940 - THE BRIDGE OF VEHICLES - Just one of the methods used by the beleaguered soldiers of the BEF to reach the evacuating ships.
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DUNKERQUE 1940 - THE BRIDGE OF VEHICLES - Just one of the methods used by the beleaguered soldiers of the BEF to reach the evacuating ships.

  • AUSCHWITZ - Portable gallows in the corridor of Block II, Such gallows were used for executions of prisoners in the camp.
  • AUSCHWITZ - The basement of Block 11 was used by the Politische Abteilung (Camp Gestapo) as a prison for the camp resistance movement.
  • AUSCHWITZ - The Gas Chamber and Crematorium I in the Main Camp. Thousands of the camp victims perished here and their corpses were incinerated in the furnaces of the Crematorium.
  • AUSCHWITZ - The gate 'Arbeit Macht Frei' in the Main Camp. Prisoners passed it every day on the ay to work.
  • AUSCHWITZ - The Wall of Death was the execution site of thousands of prisoners, mainly members of the camp resistance movement as well as prisoners from the Gestapo prison in Katowice.
  • AUSCHWITZ BIRKENAU - A latrine in the female sector. There is a German inscription on the wall: 'Behave Quietly'.
  • AUSCHWITZ BIRKENAU - Barracks in the female sector of the camp at Birkenau. The camp fence is visible in the foreground, then remnants of the wooden barracks and behind them the brick barracks. One of the watch towers appears in the background.
  • AUSCHWITZ BIRKENAU - Interior of a wooden barrack. These buildings were designed as stables for 32 horses and they were intended to house several hundred prisoners.
  • AUSCHWITZ BIRKENAU - In the foreground there is the camp fence and beyond it there are the wooden barracks of the quarantine sector.
  • AUSCHWITZ BIRKENAU - Ruins of the Gas Chamber and Crematorium II. Hundreds of thousands of the camp victims were gassed and cremated here.
  • AUSCHWITZ BIRKENAU - The pond in the vicinity of Crematoria IV and V was used for dumping the ashes of the bodies incinerated in these crematoria.
  • AUSCHWITZ BIRKENAU - The unloading ramp inside Birkenau Camp, where the SS doctors carried out the selections among the Jewish people who had just arrived in the camp. In the background is the main gate of the camp.
  • AUSCHWITZ BIRKENAU - The unloading ramp inside Birkenau Camp, where the SS doctors carried out the selections among the Jewish people who had just arrived in the camp. In the background is the main gate of the camp. The view from the Theresientstadt Family Camp in BIIb Sector.
  • DUNKERQUE 1940 - RUE DE PORT.
  • DUNKERQUE 1940 - RUE FOCH,
  • DUNKERQUE 1940 - RUE FOCH.
  • DUNKERQUE 1940 - RUE POINCARE.
  • DUNKERQUE 1940 - THE BEACH - Two Thames Spritsail Barges ashore after the evacuation in May 1940. 16 Thames barges went to Dunkerque and no less than 9 were lost during the operation.
  • DUNKERQUE 1940 - THE BEACH.
  • DUNKERQUE 1940 - THE BRIDGE OF VEHICLES - Just one of the methods used by the beleaguered soldiers of the BEF to reach the evacuating ships.
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