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Aerial view: German reconnaissance after Soviet capture, Birkenau.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 03995

Aerial view: German reconnaissance after Soviet capture, Birkenau.

Overview

Caption: Aerial view: German reconnaissance after Soviet capture, Birkenau.
Date: 1945 February 19
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

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Photo Source: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

Copyright: Public Domain

Source Record ID: 373-Aerial Photographs--GX12337

Keywords & Subjects

Keyword: AUSCHWITZ BOMBINGS CONCENTRATION CAMPS KILLING CENTERS PHOTOGRAPHS (AERIAL) VIEWS
Photo Designation: KILLING CENTERS -- Auschwitz -- LIBERATION -- Aerial Photographs

Record last modified:: 1996-03-25 00:00:00
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