Evil times

75 years ago today the Red Army entered the Auschwitz extermination camp in Poland. By that time the Nazis had murdered a vast number of people, mainly Jews, in the camp. The number is generally stated to be about 1.1 million, but the camp's first commandant, Rudolf Höss, testified after the war at the Nuremberg Trials that up to three million people had died there (2.5 million gassed, and 500,000 from overwork, disease and starvation).
The photograph shows the remains of one of the 5 gas chambers and associated crematoria. They were blown up by the Germans before the Russians arrived.
I have broken the rules by posting a photograph that I took 15 years ago but I felt it important to mark this anniversary. The visit was a very gruelling experience indeed and I felt able to take only a very few photographs.