Album Camp Dachau – Photo Album from the Dachau Death Camp. Special Allied Edition at the End of the War, shortly after the sentencing of the Nazi war criminals who ran the camp during the “Dachau Trials, ” conducted entirely by members of the United States Armed Forces. Numerous photographs documenting harrowing scenes of the bodies of prisoners murdered in the camp. Each photograph is described on the opposite page in four languages: Polish, English, German, and French. Dachau, [c. 1946].
A complete album containing 40 photographs documenting horrifying scenes from the camp: the firing range – site of executions by shooting, the crematorium, gas chambers, murdered prisoners being carried on a cart, bodies of prisoners who died of starvation and exhaustion, removal of bodies on wagons, piles of bodies near the crematorium, prisoners placing a body into the crematorium, urns with victims’ ashes, the camp’s entrance gate, liberated prisoners cheering for their American liberators, aerial views of the camp barracks, and the camp kitchen. Additionally, the album includes photographs from the courtroom during the Dachau Trials: The prosecution, representatives of various countries, and witnesses identifying Camp Commander Martin Gottfried Weiss (1905-1946). Weiss, the final commander of Dachau, was captured on April 29, 1945, in Munich during his attempted escape by Corporal Henry Senger of the U.S. Army’s 292nd Field Artillery Battalion. Weiss was tried in the Dachau Trials, which began on November 13, 1945, found guilty of crimes against humanity, and executed by hanging on May 29, 1946, in Landsberg Prison. A witness identifies Rupert, the detention camp leader.
A photo of Professor Klaus Karl Schilling (1871-1946), head of the malaria experimentation station. Schilling, a German doctor, was notorious for his participation in medical experiments on Dachau prisoners between 1942–1945, conducted in an attempt to find a cure for malaria. Over 1,000 prisoners were subjected to these experiments. Following the fall of Nazi Germany, Schilling was sentenced to death and executed in 1946 for crimes against humanity.
A witness demonstrates the 25-lash punishment administered to prisoners in the courtroom. Photos of the sentencing of Camp Commander Weiss and the sentencing of other officials.
Album dimensions: 15.5×11 cm. Very good condition.
