Sonderaktion 1005
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Sonderaktion 1005, also called Aktion 1005 or Enterdungsaktion, was a top-secret Nazi operation conducted from June 1942 to late 1944. The goal of the project was to hide or destroy any evidence of th
Burning of bodies at Auschwitz-Birkenau by Sonderkommando prisoners in 1944 (secret photo by prisoner Alberto Errera)
Paul Blobel, beard grown in prison
Sonderkommando photographs
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The Sonderkommando photographs are four blurred photographs taken secretly in August 1944 inside the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. Along with a few photographs in the Auschwi
Sonderaktion 1005
…the Aktion would also include non-Jewish victims of Nazi persecution. Burning of bodies at Auschwitz-Birkenau by Sonderkommando prisoners in 1944 (secret photo by prisoner Alberto Errera) Blobel began his work experimenting at the Chełmno extermination camp (Kulmhof). Attempts to use incendiary bombs to destroy exhumed bodies were…
No. 280, framed by the gas chamber's doorway or window
No. 281
No. 281 cropped and retouched