crematorium
Crematorium

Design of a crematorium.

Starting in 1941, the Germans began to use crematoria at Auschwitz not simply for disposing corpses, but as an integral part of murdering live prisoners.

Increasingly detailed renderings like the one seen here provided ample evidence of the killing evolution.

(For a close-up of this image, go to "Crematorium" in the Master Plans interactive.)

Courtesy of Auschwitz Museum.