Aerial view of Birkenau concentration camp showing the gas chambers (Poland, 25 August 1944)

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On 25 August 1944, the US Central Intelligence Agency services take this aerial photo of the Nazi extermination camp in Birkenau, Poland, showing a group of prisoners on their way to the gas chambers.

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Source: Cartographic and Architectural Records LICON, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-C), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001. NWDNC. 263. AUSCHWITZ. 19(07). ARC Id. 305900.
Birkenau Extermination Camp - Oswiecim, Poland. Oswiecim: National Security Council. Central Intelligence Agency. National Photographic Interpretation Center, 25/08/1944. Black and White.

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Aerial view of Birkenau concentration camp showing the gas chambers (Poland, 25 August 1944)