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In this famous photograph, Dr Fritz Klein, the camp physician, is standing in a mass grave at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp; his main duty was the selection of prisoners to be sent into the gas chambers. From 1942-1944 transport trains delivered Jews, Romani, people with disabilities, Soviet war prisoners, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses and other political and religious opponents to “forced labor camps”. Here, after a selection process, prisoners were made to work 12-15 hour shifts, wearing only striped fatigues and wooden shoes. The weaker, older and more defiant were sent directly to the gas chambers (where everyone eventually landed up), to be gassed alive, with their bodies disposed of either in mass graves or incinerated atop pyres.
It is disputable how much of this the world actually knew – photographs circulated and rumors traveled – but it took over three years before action was taken and in the mean time two thirds of Europe's Jewish population had been exterminated.
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- real life comedy.Uglyfreak
- what a stupid fat cunt********
- :( poor guy.brains
- He had 3 girlfriends originallygoldieboy
- real life timelinewaki
- *Cue's Benny Hill musicRamanisky2
- OBBTKN0
- i still think he looks like george bush********
- Throw a shoe at him!boobs
- http://totallylooksl…elahon
- I look 100% just like this guy!********
- Where is that dildo helicopter.********
- i still think he looks like george bush
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- I sometimes wish I lived in a time when all photography was believed to be true.Wolfboy
- People were suckered by these images and people were scared when they first saw a train coming towards them in the cinema.Wolfboy
- Amazing times for the image makers. The default reaction today is 'Shopped'Wolfboy
- ummm if a train is coming towards ME. trust me i would be afraidCALLES