Snugug Photography | Auschwitz-Birkenau | Gas Chamber I

This is a black and white photo of a concrete building with a tall chimney. The building has a large door in the front and a window to the right of the door. There are also some other windows along the side of the building. There is a concrete path leading up to the building, and a grassy hill in the background. The building is old and worn, and the grass is overgrown. The photo was taken on an overcast day. This is an image of a crematorium in a concentration camp. — Gas Chamber I

After running their first experiments with gassing victims in Bunker 11, the Nazis converted this morgue into their first gas chamber.

We walked through it. I saw the vents they dropped the gas from. They described why it was so effective.

I’ve ways had a picture of what these were like in my mind, but it was so much more brutal through it’s… banality? than I imagined. A grey concrete bunker, connected to a room with furnaces, burning so hot they needed steel carts to load the bodies. A true nightmare.

Reflecting back on my trip to Auschwitz, the most ominous sign I saw that day was the "no open flames" sign in the gas chamber and crematorium in here.

10/12/2024

FUJIFILM X-T5

FUJIFILM XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR

125

ƒ/2.8

$\frac{1}{60}$

16mm ≡24mm

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Auschwitz-Birkenau

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