File:Birkenau25August1944.jpg

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English: Photograph of the German extermination camp at Auschwitz II-Birkenau in occupied Poland, taken by a United States Army Air Force plane on August 25, 1944. Crematoria II and III are visible. For the date of the image and what it shows, see The Case for Auschwitz by Robert Jan van Pelt, 2002, Indiana University Press, p. 175. ISBN 0253340160 The photograph is oriented with south at the top.
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Author 60. Sqad. SAAF, Sortie No. 60/PR694
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