RE: RE: TIL the Nazis ordered 2 Auschwitz prisoners to destroy thousands of inmate mugshot photographs as the camp was evacuated in 1945. The inmates recognized the importance of that evidence and sabotaged the furnace thus saving 38,916 photos.
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RE: TIL the Nazis ordered 2 Auschwitz prisoners to destroy thousands of inmate mugshot photographs as the camp was evacuated in 1945. The inmates recognized the importance of that evidence and sabotaged the furnace thus saving 38,916 photos.

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I have never understood the nazi obsession with the records they kept on the people they murdered. It was good that Eisenhower forced locals to see the camps when they were liberated to make sure that no one could say it never happened. It's good the photos were saved.

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