My trip to Poland - Part III - KZ Stutthof

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Hi again. I keep posting the pictures of my trip to Poland. Now is the turn of Stutthof concentration camp, located some 35 km from Danzig or Gdansk city in the Baltic sea. Some 85000 people died there. It's well preserved, and some exhibitions can be seen there. I would say that the exhibitions are far better than those in Auschwitz. They explain everything far better. Even the villa of the kommandant is still there. This camp was erected to kill people from the area of Gdansk and it is known also that human fat soap was manufactured in the area of the camp when Russians arrived.

Surveillance tower and entrance barrack for the guards.

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Entrance to the camp with the old fountain and the buildings of the kommandantur.

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The "Death Gate" of Stutthof and a barrack.

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A cranium piece with a bullet hole and the boxes which were sent to relatives of the killed camp inmates along with a letter telling families that the inmate had died due to an illness. I attach also a pic of the shoes of the inmates which were found when the camp was liberated by russians.

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Punishment barrack

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Imprisonment and torture chamber

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Barrack foundations

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Infirmary