Special folder with eight harsh photographs from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Berlin. The photographs are described on the back in print in German and Russian. Published by Reichenbach - 1940s. Extremely rare.
In the photographs: prisoners doing forced labor in digging, the hanging pole where prisoners were punished to death, the crematorium in the camp, an aerial view of the wooden barracks, and others.
The Sachsenhausen concentration camp was the main camp for the Berlin area during the Nazi regime period. It was established in the Sachsenhausen district of the town of Oranienburg, a northern suburb of Berlin, as one of three concentration camps established at that time in Germany for opponents of the Nazi regime (along with Dachau and Buchenwald). From April to June 1941, SS doctor Dr. Friedrich Menke conducted a selection among the camp prisoners, sorting out exhausted and sick prisoners as part of an operation to expand the T4 program - euthanasia and apply it to camp prisoners who were too weak to work. These prisoners were transferred to Sonnenstein, a center where the physically and mentally disabled were systematically killed with gas by SS doctors. The camp operated as a Nazi concentration camp between 1936-1945, and according to estimates, close to one hundred thousand people were murdered in the camp out of about two hundred thousand prisoners who were imprisoned there.
11x8 cm. Very good condition.
