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An aerial
photo of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp was taken by taken
by the 60 Photo-reconnaissance Squadron of the South African Air
Force operating from southern Italy on 31/5/1944
for bombing intelligence purposes. The photoreconnaissance plane was
actually looking for the nearby IG Farben war production factory and
other war production facilities in the area.
The photo material of this sortie was shared with the US 15th
Air Force, which later bombed the IG Farben factory. Two CIA researchers
reinterpreted the photo in 1978, and they inserted the captions and
arrows on the photo. The arrows are pointing at several groups of
inmates inside the camp. Also visible are several railcars next to
the ramp. Smoke billowing from the chimney of crematorium V
indicates that people were exterminated in the gas chamber beneath
it shortly before.
Click on
the dots below for photos from the Album depicting events which took
place at those points.
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