Auschwitz-Birkenau WW2 German concentration camp in Poland 275 photos Holocaust

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KL Auschwitz

275 Documentary photographs
Publisher- National Museum in AuschwitzLanguage- Polish, English, French, German, RussianYear of publication - 1980Cover - HardbackPages- 250 (275 photos)
Condition - Good. The cover is a little damaged7f
Part of preface:The State Museum in Oswiecim thus releases a five-language version of its album containing documentary photographs portraying the most grandiose Nazi death camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau. The Auschwitz Museum is in possession of rather rich archives, a part of which are unique in character. The mechanical documentation section is of a particular importance as it has iconographic material from the years where KL Auschwitz functioned as a death camp, and from the period following its liberation. The camp authorities were under order form the Reichsführer SS and the inspectorate for concentration camps to keep the crimes perpetrated at the camp a secret, and thus it was forofferden to take photographs of anything directly or indirectly connected with the camp. The fact is confirmed quite explicitly in one of the orders issued by the authorities of KL Auschwitz (Kommandanturbefehl) No. 4/43 of Feb. 2, 1943, whose article 3 reads: ,,I would like to point out once again that taking photographs within camp limits is forofferden. I will be very strict in treating those who refuse to obey this order\". This document was signed by the camp commander, SS-Obersturmbanfführer Rudolf Höss. Only chosen SS-men were allowed to take pictures at the order of the camp commander, while the film had to be developed and the prints made only in the local laboratory. Most of the photographs were made in the laboratory. Most of the photographs were made in the laboratory of the intelligence service (erkennungsdienst) supervised by the camp Gestapo (Politische Abteilung), and headed by SS-man Bernhardt Walter. The laboratory was in charge of such work as : photos of inmates in three poses, which were later kept in the archives of the laboratory together with files, photos of detained resistance fighters, photos of prisoners shot during escape attempts, and of those who - unable to endure the torture - committed suicide. Moreover, the laboratory developed films of specialistic photographs which presented the criminal experiments being made on the inmates by SS physicians, and the effects of these. The films were actually developed and the prints made by chosen inmates. This work was always carried out under the supervision of SS-men who saw to it that neither the negatives nor the prints got into unwanted hands. The ready material was then sent to the appropriate branches, while the technically substandard copies were dutifully destroyed. Top secret photos, such as those made during gas poisoning actions or the burning of bodies, were developed personally by SS-men. In the most drastic cases, the negatives were destroyed immediately after developing, and the prints - in one copy only - were sent to the camp\'s commandant.
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