Poland - Lublin - Majdanek Camp - The Mausoleum 02_mono panorama_DSC1110
A mono fisheye shot taken inside the Majdanek Camp Mausoleum. This concrete 'sarcophagus' contains the remains of thousands of the Camps former occupants........
Designed by Polish sculptor and architect Wiktor Tołkin and completed in 1969 this sits at the opposite end of a monumental axis that cuts right through the middle of the Camp.
Click here to see my other Poland shots : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72157671110605611
From Wikipedia, 'Majdanek or KL Lublin was a Nazi German Extermination camp established on the outskirts of the city of Lublin during the German occupation of Poland in World War II. Although initially purposed for forced labor rather than extermination, the camp was used to kill people on an industrial scale during Operation Reinhard, the German plan to murder all Jews within their own General Government territory of Poland.
The camp, which operated from October 1, 1941 until July 22, 1944, was captured nearly intact, because the rapid advance of the Soviet Red Army during Operation Bagration prevented the SS from destroying most of its infrastructure, but also due to ineptitude of commandant Anton Thernes who failed in his task of removing incriminating evidence of war crimes. Therefore, Majdanek became the first concentration camp discovered by Allied forces.
Also known to the SS as Konzentrationslager Lublin, Majdanek remains the best preserved Nazi concentration camp of the Holocaust.'
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Poland - Lublin - Majdanek Camp - The Mausoleum 02_mono panorama_DSC1110
A mono fisheye shot taken inside the Majdanek Camp Mausoleum. This concrete 'sarcophagus' contains the remains of thousands of the Camps former occupants........
Designed by Polish sculptor and architect Wiktor Tołkin and completed in 1969 this sits at the opposite end of a monumental axis that cuts right through the middle of the Camp.
Click here to see my other Poland shots : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72157671110605611
From Wikipedia, 'Majdanek or KL Lublin was a Nazi German Extermination camp established on the outskirts of the city of Lublin during the German occupation of Poland in World War II. Although initially purposed for forced labor rather than extermination, the camp was used to kill people on an industrial scale during Operation Reinhard, the German plan to murder all Jews within their own General Government territory of Poland.
The camp, which operated from October 1, 1941 until July 22, 1944, was captured nearly intact, because the rapid advance of the Soviet Red Army during Operation Bagration prevented the SS from destroying most of its infrastructure, but also due to ineptitude of commandant Anton Thernes who failed in his task of removing incriminating evidence of war crimes. Therefore, Majdanek became the first concentration camp discovered by Allied forces.
Also known to the SS as Konzentrationslager Lublin, Majdanek remains the best preserved Nazi concentration camp of the Holocaust.'
My Website : Twitter : Facebook : Instagram : Photocrowd
© D.Godliman