RMD39RCM–(dpa files) - The execution room of the former Nazi concentration camp Ploetzensee, Berlin (undated).
RMD993WP–Execution of Kiev Jews by German army mobile killing units (Einsatzgruppen) near Ivangorod Ukraine 1942. World War II Holocaust. The photo was intercepted at a Warsaw post office by a member of the Polish resistance named Jerzy Tomaszewski.
RM2NG815F–The early phase of the Holocaust was not with gas chambers but mobile execution squads known as Enisatzgruppen. Their task was to roam behind teh front lines shooting all the Jews they could. This repellant photo shows a German policeman preparing to complete the Mizocz mass execution by shooting two Jewish children, 14 October 1942
RFC0FXF9–Execution area at the Fort Breendonk, a former Nazi concentration camp in Belgium.
RM2HN9RT7–Execution of Stutthof concentration camp overseers at Biskupia Górka (from left to right): Jenny-Wanda Barkmann, Ewa Paradies, Elisabeth Becker, Wanda Klaff and Gerda Steinhoff, further the guard SS-Oberscharführer Johann Pauls (the chief of the work detail 'Waldkolonne') and Polish kapos
RM2J0TB5B–Mass execution of 56 Polish citizens in Bochnia, near Kraków, following the Nazi invasion of Poland, December 18, 1939. The execution of 56 Polish citizens in Bochnia, near Kraków, during German occupation of Poland, December 18, 1939 in a reprisal for an attack on a German police office two days earlier by the underground organization 'White Eagle'.
RM2A5YWHF–German General, Anton Dostler, tied to a stake during his execution by a firing squad, Italy, 1945
RMBNN0FH–ADOLF EICHMANN (1906-1962) German Nazi officer responsible for logistics of the Holocaust in eastern Europe at his trial
RMFXX6KA–Adolph Hitler (1889-1945) was the leader of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945, the initiator of World War II, and the most influential voice in the torture and execution of millions in the Holocaust.
RM2CWBDGY–Trial of the French pro-Nazi author Robert Brasillach, Paris, 1945. A supporter of fascism since 1934, Brasillach edited an anti-semitic newspaper, Je suis partout, during the Nazi occupation of France. He also supported the German occupation of Vichy France and signed a 1944 document calling for the summary execution of all French Resistance members. Arrested after Paris fell to the Allies, he was convicted of cooaboration and executed by firing squad on 6 February 1945. The photographer is unknown.
RM2AXW7FP–Operation Barbarossa in rare pictures, 1941
RM2WMHWRJ–Wilhelm Frick. Portrait of the prominent German politician and nazi, Wilhelm Frick (1877-1946), c. 1940-45
RM2E4CTFE–Portrait of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), German Christian pastor, theologian, anti-Nazi dissident, and key founding member of the Confessing Church. Bonhoeffer was arrested in April 1943 by the Gestapo and imprisoned at Tegel prison. Later he was transferred to Flossenbürg concentration camp before being executed by the Nazis for accusations of plotting to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
RMF7NYG5–German General, Anton Dostler, tied to a stake during his execution by a firing squad, Italy, 1945
RME0GYDD–Execution of prisoners in Poland by Nazis during the WWII
RMF2B2FK–Execution of Pierre Laval on Oct. 17, 1945. The firing squad is at left, and Laval is at right, in the courtyard of Frennes Prison. In foreground are the witnesses to the execution of the World War II collaborationist Prime Minister of France. (CSU 2015 8 530)
RMERGCK9–Execution of Mussolini and others. 40th Prime Minister of Italy and leader of National Fascist Party: 29 July 1883 – 28 April
RMTXG8DN–Execution of Kiev Jews by German army killing units (Einsatzgruppen = intervention groups) near Ivangorod, Ukraine
RMDAW2PB–justice, penitentiary system, hanging, execution of Adolf Eiermann, local group leader of Weisenbach, for the assassination of prisoners of war, Landsberg am Lech, 19.11.1948, Additional-Rights-Clearences-Not Available
RM2JAHJT1–HOESS Camp Commandant Of Auschwitz Rudolf Hoess at the gallows, with hooded executioner. Taken prisoner by the British, he was handed over to the Poles tried sentenced to death, and taken back to Auschwitz and there within site of the block houses hanged. Nazi Hoess was in charge of the huge extermination camp in Poland where the Nazis murdered some three million Jews, from the time of its creation (he was responsible for building it) in 1940 until late in 1943, by which time the mass exterminations were well underway.
RMDAW2P5–justice, penitentiary system, hanging, execution of Anton Schosser for murdering a shoot down American aviator, Landsberg am Lech, 24.1.1946, Additional-Rights-Clearences-Not Available
RM2NG81RX–German officers looking at the hanged body of a civilian man in Warsaw during WW2.
RM2M3K27E–Photograph showing Dutch civilians filing past the execution ground of Breendonck fort, Belgium, 1944. This fort, situated between Brussels and Antwerp, was used by Nazi security services during their occupation of Belgium between 1940-44. As such, it was the scene of many Nazi atrocities. Many of the people shown in the image had had relatives executed by the Nazis there and had come to pay their last respects. Date: 1944
RM2TBR3BA–German General Anton Dostler is tied to a stake before his execution by a firing squad in the Aversa stockade. The General was convicted and sentenced
RMTA298X–The Dune in Kalevi-Liiva served as the execution and burial site for trainloads of Central European Jews transported to Estonia for extermination. Other victims include Gypsies and political prisoners of mainly Estonian and Russian origin. The mass execution were carried out by Estonian Nazi collaborators under German supervision.
RM2AC5YTW–Execution wall in former Nazi concentration camp Gross-Rosen in Poland
RMBNN0E0–ADOLF EICHMANN (1906-1962) German Nazi officer responsible for logistics of the Holocaust in eastern Europe at his trial
RFC0FXEX–Execution areas hanging hatches at the Fort Breendonk, a former Nazi concentration camp in Belgium.
RMEETT8F–The Mittelbau-Dora Nazi concentration camp was located on the outskirts of Nordhausen during World War II to provide labor for the Mittelwerk V-2 rocket factory in the Kohnstein. On April 3 and 4 April 1945 three-quarters of the town was destroyed by bombing raids of the Royal Air Force, in which around 8,800 people died, including 1500 sick prisoners at the Boelcke Kaserne barracks within Nordhausen.[2] Earlier on August 24, 1944, 11 B-17 Flying Fortresses of Mission 568 bombed the airfield at Nordhausen as a target of opportunity.[3] On 11 April 1945, the Americans occupied the town, and on
RMBX512T–Karl Hermann Frank, execution
RMF22E2P–1945 Stars and Stripes front page reporting the Execution of Benito Mussolini
RMBX56WA–Alois Kriz, execution
RMKKEF9E–Polish hostages preparing by Nazi Germans for mass execution 1940
RMWAP04N–Czech Legation flag at half-mast. Washington, D.C., Nov. 18. Nine students suspected of anti-nazi outbreaks in Prague have been executed by German storm troopers and 1200 more held under arrest. At Berlin, a high official said that while the execution of the students 'may seem harsh,' it was necessary because Germany was at war and 'can not allow the Czech people to be contaminated by a few hotheads.' Picture shows the Czech Legation in Washington flying its colors at half-mast
RF2R34XXH–The famous Nuremberg courthouse where the trial of Nazi war criminals was held in 1945.
RMERGCMD–Execution of Mussolini and others. 40th Prime Minister of Italy and leader of National Fascist Party: 29 July 1883 – 28 April
RMR24398–Einzatz Gruppen execute Jews in Kiev in the Ukraine 1942
RF2A2ANFE–Main gate and train transit arch, Auschwitz-Birkenau, former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp, Oswiecim, Poland.
RMC13BJP–Alfred Jodl (1890-1946), Nazi Chief of Operations Staff during World War II, before his execution at Nuremberg, November 8, 1945.
RMDAW2P7–justice, penitentiary system, hanging, execution of Anton Schosser for murdering a shoot down American aviator, Landsberg am Lech, 24.1.1946, Additional-Rights-Clearences-Not Available
RM2NG81T0–The early phase of the Holocaust was not with gas chambers but mobile execution squads known as Enisatzgruppen. Their task was to roam behind teh front lines shooting all the Jews they could. They killed an estimated two million people. This photo shows Germansoldiers overseeing the burial of bodies after an execution.
RME5GMRK–1946 New York Herald Tribune front page reporting the suicide of Hermann Goering and execution of Nazi leaders at Nürnberg
RME0KPFF–Images of the skeleton corpses at Bergen-Belsen Nazi concentration camp
RMTA21JJ–The Dune in Kalevi-Liiva served as the execution and burial site for trainloads of Central European Jews transported to Estonia for extermination. Other victims include Gypsies and political prisoners of mainly Estonian and Russian origin. The mass execution were carried out by Estonian Nazi collaborators under German supervision.
RM2AC5YTE–Former Nazi concentration camp Gross-Rosen in Poland
RMBNN0F1–ADOLF EICHMANN (1906-1962) German Nazi officer responsible for logistics of the Holocaust in eastern Europe at his trial
RFC0FXF1–Chains of death. Execution area and chains used in hanging at the Fort Breendonk, a former Nazi concentration camp in Belgium.
RMEETT86–The Mittelbau-Dora Nazi concentration camp was located on the outskirts of Nordhausen during World War II to provide labor for the Mittelwerk V-2 rocket factory in the Kohnstein. On April 3 and 4 April 1945 three-quarters of the town was destroyed by bombing raids of the Royal Air Force, in which around 8,800 people died, including 1500 sick prisoners at the Boelcke Kaserne barracks within Nordhausen.[2] Earlier on August 24, 1944, 11 B-17 Flying Fortresses of Mission 568 bombed the airfield at Nordhausen as a target of opportunity.[3] On 11 April 1945, the Americans occupied the town, and on
RM2FNGFW4–Poland / History / Concentration Camp / 1985 Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Former prisoner Rosenberg (father of the singer Marianne Rosenberg) at the execution wall of the main camp. He is a Sinti (Gypsy). For the first time back in the camp since the war. // Nazis / Holocaust / // Jews / Nazi / Fascism / World Heritage Site UNESCO / Gypsies *** Local Caption *** History / Fascism / Poland / Nazism / Jews / Concentration camp Auschwitz, execution wall. // UNESCO World Heritage Site / [automated translation]
RM2J43J1X–Three German Civilians Executed -- The black hood is placed over the head of Peter Kohn before the execution is carried out. Three German civilians the first war criminals to be tried in Germany, were hanged at dawn today June 29, at the Military prison at Rhineback. All three were found guilty of the murder of American airman who parachute to earth from his blazing bomber last August 15. The three men, Peter back, a cripple and rural leader of the Nazi party; Peter Kohn, one Armed German vetera
RMBX56W9–Rudolf Novak, execution, death
RM2B00TYD–Vietnam: Vo Thi Sau (1935-1952), 17 year old heroine and patriot executed by French firing squad, March 13, 1952. Vo Thi Sau (1935-1952), real name Nguyen Thi Sau, was a 17 year old heroine and patriot executed by French firing squad, March 13, 1952, just seven years after metropolitan France had been liberated from Nazi occupation. She was arrested in 1950, aged 15 years, for throwing a hand grenade in the market at Dat Do which killed three French soldiers. She was sent to Con Dao Prison island where she was executed by the occupying forces. Vo Thi Sau was posthumously awarded.
RMD990E7–Einsatzgruppen soldier executes a Jew above a mass grave
RF2R34XX2–The famous Nuremberg courthouse where the trial of Nazi war criminals was held in 1945.
RMBBNCGR–Nazism / National Socialism, crimes, concentration camps, Mauthausen, Austria, prisoner's orchestra playing at the execution of prisoner Hans Bonarewitz, 30.7.1942,
RM2D80XM9–Buchenwald; literally beech forest) was a Nazi concentration camp established on Ettersberg hill near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937. On the main gate, the motto Jedem das Seine (English: 'To each his own'), was inscribed. The SS interpreted this to mean the 'master race' had a right to humiliate and destroy others It was one of the first and the largest of the concentration camps within Germany's 1937 borders. Many actual or suspected communists were among the first internees. Prisoners came from all over Europe and the Soviet Union—Jews, Poles and other Slavs, the mentally ill and physically
RME1CRPR–German atrocities in Poland ca. 1941. Polish women led by soldiers through woods to their execution during World War 2.
RM2NG8191–The early phase of the Holocaust was not with gas chambers but mobile execution squads known as Enisatzgruppen. Their task was to roam behind teh front lines shooting all the Jews they could. They killed an estimated two million people. This photo shows the men firing at their victims kneeling by a ditch into which their bodies will fall.
RM2AEH76H–The Death Wall was where thousands of Polish prisoners were executed. Block 11 was a punishment, torture and execution prison inside Auschwitz I Conce
RFMX0MEX–Auschwitz, Poland - the most deadliest extermination camp during the holocaust, and still today an unforgettable experience for each visitor
RFT1E2D0–BW photo of sleeping quarters with wooden bunk beds showing prisoners terrible living conditions at The Nazi concentration camp of birkenau in
RMCWAYC2–Polish civilians being executed by German soldiers, 1939
RMBNN0ED–ADOLF EICHMANN (1906-1962) German Nazi officer responsible for logistics of the Holocaust in eastern Europe at his trial
RFC0FXDE–Fort Breendonk, a former Nazi concentration camp in Belgium.
RM2B6JRJ1–GERMANS HANG SOVIET CIVILIANS. Five Russians await hanging near the town of Velizh in the Smolensk region of NW Russia in September 1941. German soldiers await the order to tip over the makeshift platform while the next group to be executed stand behind blindfolded. In September 1942 German occupation forces murdered all but 17 of the town's 1440 Jewish population.
RM2FNGFTH–Poland / History / Concentration Camp / 1985 Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Former prisoner Rosenberg (father of the singer Marianne Rosenberg) at the execution wall of the main camp. He is a Sinti (Gypsy). For the first time back in the camp since the war. // Nazis / Holocaust / // Jews / Nazi / Fascism / World Heritage Site UNESCO / Gypsies *** Local Caption *** History / Fascism / Poland / Nazism / Jews / Concentration camp Auschwitz, execution wall. // UNESCO World Heritage Site / [automated translation]
RMDW4Y1N–POLISH WOMEN are taken to be executed by German soldiers in 1941.
RMBX56WF–A.J. Kozisek, execution, death
RMTA32X9–Heinrich Himmler established a place of execution in Pankrac prison in 1943, in the south of Prague. Since the occupation of Czechoslovakia, the prison had been used as a detention center by the Gestapo. Guillotines and iron hooks stood in the so-called 'Beilzimmer' for hanging. All participants of the Operation Anthropoid were killed in this room. Undated photo, around 1943.
RMD991P4–Einzatz Gruppen (death squads) gather to execute Jews in a pit or ditch, East Europe circa 1942
RF2R34XX8–The famous Nuremberg courthouse where the trial of Nazi war criminals was held in 1945.
RMTA1537–Soldiers of the 157th Infantry Regiment of the US Army are targeting SS men, who are lined up along a wall. According to the original caption, the SS men lying on the ground try to pretend to be dead after the Americans opened fire on a fleeing guard. In a spontaneous revenge action between 39 and 50 guards were shot and this photo shows probably the moment before the execution.
RMEC7R2A–Photograph of American soldiers executing guards of the Dachau Concentration Camp. Dated 1945
RM2D80XEA–Buchenwald; literally beech forest) was a Nazi concentration camp established on Ettersberg hill near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937. On the main gate, the motto Jedem das Seine (English: 'To each his own'), was inscribed. The SS interpreted this to mean the 'master race' had a right to humiliate and destroy others It was one of the first and the largest of the concentration camps within Germany's 1937 borders. Many actual or suspected communists were among the first internees. Prisoners came from all over Europe and the Soviet Union—Jews, Poles and other Slavs, the mentally ill and physically
RMCPJ0NY–Brandenburg prison, 1932
RMEX6W0C–Einzatz Gruppen execute Jews in Kiev in the Ukraine 1942
RM2NG8197–The early phase of the Holocaust was not with gas chambers but mobile execution squads known as Enisatzgruppen. Their task was to roam behind teh front lines shooting all the Jews they could. They killed an estimated two million people. This photo shows the men firing at their victims kneeling by a ditch into which their bodies will fall.
RM2AEH77D–The Death Wall was where thousands of Polish prisoners were executed. Block 11 was a punishment, torture and execution prison inside Auschwitz I Conce
RMPNGEN0–Original film title: SCHINDLER'S LIST. English title: SCHINDLER'S LIST. Year: 1993. Director: STEVEN SPIELBERG. Credit: UNIVERSAL PICTURES / Album
RMTA21TN–SS soldier poses next to prisoners who are subjected to the punishment of the tree hanging. The image is a mock recording, possibly provided by the DEFA for political reasons in 1958. See: Herbert Obenaus, The photo of tree-hanging - a picture goes around the world in: Memorials-Newsletter 68 (Okt.1995), pp 3-8. The image is inverted.
RME0KP7B–Dachau Concentration Camp
RMTA29CJ–Death sentence to Mrs Ehrengard Frank Schultz, born Besser, in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, on November 6, 1944 pronounced by the People's Court under Ronald Freisler, Martin Stier, Friedrich Tscharmann, Daniel Hauer, Councillor Kaiser, as well as the First Prosecutor Kurt Jaager for undermining military strength.
RFC0FXEN–Fort Breendonk, a former Nazi concentration camp in Belgium.
RMFFYJHH–justice, documents, mandate of the executioner Ernst Reindel to execute Josef Bouschka, issued by the senior prosecutor at the special court, Leitmeritz, 28.6.1943, Additional-Rights-Clearences-Not Available
RMBTKA91–Polish civilians being executed by German soldiers, 1939
RMFF6PXB–justice, documents, mandate of the executioner Ernst Reindel to execute private first class Werner Casper, issued by the court of the 433rd division, Frankfurt / Oder, 6.7.1943, Additional-Rights-Clearences-Not Available
RMBX56WD–A.J. Kozisek, public execution, National Court
RMHT7P20–The 'Shoes on the Danube bank' memorial on the side of Pest, Budapest, Hungary.
RMBX51D3–Prague 5000 strong crowd of Czechs view the public execution of Karl Hermann Frank. Frank was executed on May 5th 1946 by
RF2R34XY2–The prison of the Nuremberg courthouse where in 1945 the Nazi war criminals were imprisoned, during the famous Nuremberg trials.
RMEMPAMG–1940 front page Daily Herald Clemency appeal for condemned I.R.A men
RF2BX9DRX–PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC - DECEMBER 9, 2017: List of victims in former Kobylisy Shooting Range, Prague, Czech Republic. Place of mass executions during WWII by Nazis after the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich.
RM2D80XF1–Buchenwald; literally beech forest) was a Nazi concentration camp established on Ettersberg hill near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937. On the main gate, the motto Jedem das Seine (English: 'To each his own'), was inscribed. The SS interpreted this to mean the 'master race' had a right to humiliate and destroy others It was one of the first and the largest of the concentration camps within Germany's 1937 borders. Many actual or suspected communists were among the first internees. Prisoners came from all over Europe and the Soviet Union—Jews, Poles and other Slavs, the mentally ill and physically
RMAE86PC–A makeshift gallows and commemorative panel at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland.
RF2H55879–The Ninth Fort Kaunas Lithuania
RM2NG81CY–The early phase of the Holocaust was not with gas chambers but mobile execution squads known as Enisatzgruppen. Their task was to roam behind teh front lines shooting all the Jews they could. They killed an estimated two million people. This photo shows Germans murdering Polish civilians in Leszno, Poland dated 21 October 1939.
RM2AEH770–The Death Wall was where thousands of Polish prisoners were executed. Block 11 was a punishment, torture and execution prison inside Auschwitz I Conce
RF2A1DECW–Concentration camp in Berlin, detail of holocaust and extermination
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