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1. How Auschwitz could have been bombed in 1944:
A Mosquito fighter swoops down at high speed to dive-bomb a building and
quickly retreat with anti-aircraft guns firing. (from 1964 movie "633 Squadron")
In 1943 and '44 high-flying Mosquitos flew over all of Europe to dive-bomb
thousands of buildings, rail-lines, dams, and other targets. From April
1944 Mosquitoes flew from North Italy to photograph potential bombing
targets in Poland including the Auschwitz and Birkenau camps.
The air photos together with spy reports contradicted the mass-murder
rumors, and therefore Birkenau structures such as the 2 large cremation
buildings were not bombed.
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2. Theresienstadt camp, Austria (now in the Czech Republic) - 1943:
Healthy, happy, well-fed inmates, who had daily hot showers in the communal
bath-house. Germans moved out the townsfolk and set-up all-Jewish
Theresienstadt in Nov, 1941. Inmates operated the camp with heated
barracks, many shops, and a bank with 53 Million Reichmarks.
Over 2 years conductor Viktor Ullmann wrote and conducted hundreds of
musical scores in the large theatre, including the chamber opera "Emperor
of Atlantis", with it's thinly-veiled criticism of Germany, which was
allowed. In late 1944 the Germans evacuated the family with all others
ahead of the Red Army. |
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3. Birkenau camp over-flight - February, 1945:
Soviet film. Looking east across the wood sleeping barracks before Soviets
removed some and burned the rest to prevent the spread of typhus. By
January '45 most inmates had been moved to camps in Germany. In January
almost all the remaining inmates chose to move west with the guards rather
than wait for the Soviet Army, which entered the camp January 27th. Soviets
alleged brutal attrocities, but did not invite international doctors,
forensic experts, and journalists to view evidence the way the Germans had
at Katyn. |
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4. Auschwitz healthy children and newborns - February, 1945:
Soviet film. Hundreds of healthy, well-fed, robust children walking west
between the 2 fence-rows at Auschwitz I with camp buildings on the left and
the music theatre on the right.
Women and nurses are carrying the newborns and babies. About 6 of the
children, and some women, eagerly expose their forearms to show their
tattooed identification numbers.
German camp authorities and mothers must have decided in January, '45, that
mothers who wished their children to remain in the camp could stay behind
with these children and wait for Soviet troops. The remainder of the
inmates were taken in groups to Germany as German authorities had assurred
the Americans and the British that camp inmates would be evacuated before
the Soviet army advance.
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5. Birkenau mass-graves on air photos - February, 1945:
Soviet film. Looking north across one of 5 mass-graves located outside
Birkenau 100 meters west of the fence around the cremation buildings and 60
meters north of the entrance road. The "Kanada" storage area buildings are
in the distance.
The five 50-meter-long graves are seen on February 19th, but not on January
21st, air photos. So the Soviets excavated them in February to bury the
hundreds of inmates who had died of disease or natural causes in Birkenau
and Auschwitz I either just before or after the Soviets entered on January
27th.
These are the only graves on Birkenau 1944 or '45 air photos, which is
understandable because almost all bodies were cremated until the end of
1944. The graves' locations were unknown until 1998 when they were
identified by the author on the February 19th, 1945 air photos.
(For location on map see: Crema
- number 23) and map february 19th, 1945. |
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6. Monowitz industrial plant, taken by Soviets - February, 1945:
Large buildings in the synthetic-rubber production area including the high
air-cooling-towers and the Power Plant with 5 high smoke stacks that
produced electricity from coal. On the far left is the aluminum smelter.
Inmates and outside workers were all paid and housed in 7 surrounding camps.
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7. Schindler's List movie - Hollywood, U.S.A. - 1994:
Camp commander Amon Goeth on horseback in camp. Hundreds of steps leading
to Goeth's hill-top house. Air-photos show house was beside a road with no
steps. Goeth on balcony with an unobstructed view of the inmate's camp and
rock bluff around camp in distance. Air-photos show inmate's camp was
behind hill and not visible from Goeth's small balcony, and wire fences on
3 sides of camp allowed un-obstructive views. Goeth shoots' sitting woman
in inmate's camp, which would have been impossible. |
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8. Katyn Forest, Soviet Union - May, 1943:
Raising a head to examine a large bullet exit wound. Removing wallets with papers which were all dated before March, 1940. Bodies were stacked 12 high and end to end. Polish Red Cross and European journalists observed examinations. Captain Butz was in charge of hundreds of international observers. |
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9. Katyn Forest, Soviet Union - May, 1943:
Villagers exposing bodies piled 2.5 m (8 ft) high in one of 7 graves. Separating and removing corpses. American, British, and Canadian air-force prisoners viewing graves. International forensic doctors examining corpses. Using probe to determine bullet entry angle in back of necks. |
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10. Air-photo plane filming - Germany, 1941:
A view of the ground from hole in plane was used to determine what areas
needed filming. More farmland. In the 1920's and 30's the Germans invented
large air-photo cameras with 24 cm (9 inch) wide film-rolls and developed
interpretation equipment at the Zeiss factory in Yena (north of Dresden),
which were copied by air forces throughout the world. |
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11. Air-photo preparing and viewing - German film, 1941:
Twin-engine air-photo plane landing. Removing photo camera. After
developing, negative rolls were dried on spinning wheels. Interpreters
viewing negatives on light-table. Interpreters with hand-held single-lens
magnifying lenses studying prints on large table with sunlight. Even today,
to obtain the best quality images with the highest resolution, interpreters
use single-lens magnifying lenses in sunlight, instead of multi-lens large
magnifiers with artificial light. So today's interpreters can see no more
than war-time interpreters. |
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