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European Photo Trip #2: Krakow, Poland. Day trip to Auschwitz.

The entrance gate that prisoners called the "Gate of Death" was located in the main SS guardhouse building. Trains carrying deportees entered here after May 1944 on the railroad spur that extended into the camp.

Auschwitz II (Birkenau) is the camp that people know simply as "Auschwitz". It was the site of imprisonment of hundreds of thousands, and the murder of over one million people, mainly Jews.

The camp's main purpose, however, was not internment with forced labor (as Auschwitz I & III) but rather extermination. For this purpose, the camp was equipped with 4 crematoria with gas chambers; each gas chamber was designed to hold up to 2500 people at one time.

Large-scale extermination started in Spring 1942.

Text sources: auschwitz-muzeum.oswiecim.pl , Wikipedia

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~Kaeth Oct 14, 2005, 12:32:40 PM
:wow: I think this picture is awsome, the stron contrast and the position of the whole elements of the picture!

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`devilicious Oct 14, 2005, 12:32:45 PM
beautiful - very symmetrical in framing which is always a nice feel and the clouds overhead/tones clearly enforce the mood of your subject :nod:

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~LunaLupin Oct 14, 2005, 12:46:47 PM
thats such an incredible shot, such an infamous place and building. Those tracks are enough to make me shudder.

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~NeedIdentity Oct 14, 2005, 12:51:41 PM
It's very...intimidating.

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~ircabbit Oct 14, 2005, 1:04:14 PM
In my opinion this photo has the highest impact of any in your series from Auschwitz. I particularly like the distance that you chose, and the view from the railroad tracks, heavily emphasizing the analogy that Auschwitz was the end of the path for so many people. I think it is a very well-done tribute.

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~natashalyonne Oct 14, 2005, 1:31:45 PM
a classic motive haki. being almost a matter of duty for germans i was there, too. we were even standing in a gas chamber with our.. erm.. führer (whom we indeed had to call that due to a lack of an alternative expression in our language :P). that was a bit over the top imho. what have you seen? what did it feel like?
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$chix0r Oct 14, 2005, 1:52:19 PM
I love how the darkness of the sky creates such a sinister ambience, makes me wodner where those traintracks are heading.

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$chix0r Oct 14, 2005, 1:54:18 PM
I love how the darkness of the sky creates such a sinister ambience, makes me wodner where those traintracks are heading.

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$chix0r Oct 14, 2005, 1:55:43 PM
of course, now that I read the description I know, and duh I feel dumb.

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