Majdanek visible from Lublin City Suburbs Alleged: from 1942 to '44 Majdanek inmates were beaten and tortured by guards for trivial offences, and 140,000 were murdered in 7 gas chambers, and by shooting.
	1947: US Army Corp Engineers map drawn from 1944 German maps and air photos.

Lublin city center (middle of photo) was only 3 kms (2 miles) north of Majdanek camp (highlighted in lower right).

1944 air photos show: Majdanek was surrounded by a wire fence, and was 3 kilometres (2 miles) south of Lublin city center, with at least 50 houses on the camp's west side, and the Lublin to Chelm highway on the camp's east side. Photo enlargement of Majdanek camp: shows the alleged gas chamber building is located in the upper left of the photo outside the camp fence. The cremation building is located at the bottom of the photo adjacent to outside the camp fence. Buildings in the lower left of the photo are in the Lublin suburbs from where residents had a clear view of the entire camp. Conclusion: Most buildings in the camp, and the alleged gas chambers and cremation building located outside the wire fence, were visible to thousands of Lublin suburb residents each day. The well organized Germans would not have chosen this location to murder and physically mistreat inmates.