Vehicles of Genocide: Labor, Concentration, and Death Camps

Dachau, outside of Munich, Germany

Entrance to Dachau

Grounds in and surrounding the camp

Gate of Dachau – “work makes one free”

Barracks in Dachau

A second view of the Dachau barracks

Roll call grounds at Dachau

High altitude tests at Dachau

Hypothermia experiments

Gas chamber at Dachau – installed, but never used

Crematorium at Dachau

The Schutzstaffel – SS – Protection Squadron

Heinrich Himmler with Adolf Hitler

Inspector of the Concentration Camps Theodor Eicke Inspector of the Concentration Camps

SS officers in the camps… …and outside

Major concentration camps in Germany as of 1939

Camp laborers building a factory

Forced labor in a locksmith shop

Forced laborers building rail tracks near a camp

SS Economic Administrative Main Office Oswald Pohl, head of the SS Economic Administrative Main Office

Soviet POWs

Execution of a Soviet POW

Marching toward death

Sites of Einsatzgruppen executions

Death camps – Totenlager

(inset shows where Zyklon B was introduced) Gas chamber (inset shows where Zyklon B was introduced)

Crematorium from the outside (the soot on the chimney is from the ovens) Ovens on the inside

Death marches into Germany

Liberation

Liberation

Extent of the Nazi camp system

Germans viewing the victims

Memorials in Dachau