Aerial Photographs of Auschwitz

August 25, 1944

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Enlargement of a section of an aerial photograph taken on August 25^th, 1944 by a Mosquito plane from the South African Air force’s 60 Photo Recon Squadron (Sortie no. 60PR/694). We can see many details from the area of gas chambers II and III, and the railway platform. We can clearly see the roofs of the gas chambers, the crematoria above them, a train by the platform and groups of prisoners on their way to the gas chambers. Note the open gate at the entrance to gas chamber II and the cultivated garden in the courtyard.