An aerial reconnaissance photograph showing the I.G. Farben "Buna" plant at Auschwitz with the Auschwitz III (Monowitz) prisoners camp.
Overview
- Caption
- An aerial reconnaissance photograph showing the I.G. Farben "Buna" plant at Auschwitz with the Auschwitz III (Monowitz) prisoners camp.
- Date
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1944 April 04 - 1944 August 20
- Locale
- Auschwitz, [Upper Silesia] Poland
- Variant Locale
- Brzezinka
Birkenau
Auschwitz III
Monowitz
Auschwitz II - Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
- Event History
- One of a series of aerial photographs taken by Allied reconnaissance units under the command of the 15th U.S. Army Air Force during missions dating between April 4, 1944 and January 14, 1945. The photos were used to plan bombing raids, determine the accuracy of bombing sorties, or make damage assessments. A typical sortie employed two cameras equipped with lenses of different focal lengths.
After the war the Auschwitz reconnaissance photographs were stored in the archives of the Defense Intelligence Agency (Washington, D.C.) until they were rediscovered in 1978 by two CIA photo analysts, Dino Brugioni and Robert Poirer. The photographs were later declassified and transferred to the National Archives, where they became RG 373. A selection of images were enlarged and annotated with identifying labels by the CIA in 1978.
See https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10008041.
See Also https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005189.
See Also "Auschwitz Main Camp" in Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, Volume 1 Part A.
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
Copyright: Public DomainSource Record ID: 373-Aerial Photographs--
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Biography
- Dr. Setkiewicz of the Auschwitz Museum identifies the following additional camps and descriptions in this photo, "The camps are as follows: residental camp no. VII for German workers, camp Lehrlingsheim - for young ethnic German boys from Silesia, camp no. III for Polish penal prisoners (Zwandsarbeitslage r no 50 für Polen) and for Ostrabeiter, camo no VIII for Croats, camp no. VI - for British Prisoners of War. Camp no IV = Auschwitz III Buna Monowitz is slighty outside the frame of the picture."
- Record last modified:
- 2009-03-20 00:00:00
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