In reference of this post (TW disturbing) https://lemmy.ml/post/22541287 depicting a pile of corpses in front of a gas chamber.
I think the photo is fake. As I mention in my other comments:
I was under the impression that the Sonderkommando photographs were the only ones depicting the actual murders and cremation of the bodies. At least that is what Wikipedia says https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonderkommando_photographs#cite_note-3 unless it refers to Auschwitz II specifically.
Someone responded that it is Dachau and precisely July 2nd, 1944, offering a link I decided not to follow.
But Dachau was not an extermination camp like Treblinka, Sobibor, Majdanec and Chelmo. Although gas chambers were installed in Dachau and other concentration camps, they were to kill unfit prisoners, not murder en masse. Crematoria also were installed to dispose of the dead. This is nonetheless a typical picture of bodies being preparated for cremation in extermination camps. And post-Operation Reinhard the main extermination camp was Auschwitz II - Birkenau.
From Wikipedia
Over the 12 years of use as a concentration camp, the Dachau administration recorded the intake of 206,206 prisoners and deaths of 31,951. Crematoria were constructed to dispose of the deceased. Visitors may now walk through the buildings and view the ovens used to cremate bodies, which hid the evidence of many deaths. It is claimed that in 1942, more than 3,166 prisoners in weakened condition were transported to Hartheim Castle near Linz, and were executed by poison gas because they were deemed unfit.[19]: 137 [25]
The main reason this does not sit well with me is that I can’t fathom how such a clear shot could even be possible, especially considering how difficult it was to produce and smuggle the Sonderkommando photographs. Additionally, the proportions of the pile in comparison to the building seems way off to me. Most of the imagery we have of the piles of corpses are from excavations of mass graves done after liberation, possibly from the footage used in “German Concentration Camps” a 1945 Ally film.
I have never heard of any such clear shot of the events that took place in and around the gas chambers. Of course I am not a historian and I have mostly learned through Wikipedia about the Holocaust, so please correct me if I am wrong.
The link you decided not to follow gives a lot of context. Although in French, which I do not speak.
These people weren’t murdered at Dachau. They are being cremated there, after dieing aboard the prisoner transport train from the Royallieu-Compiègne internment camp.
The German Wikipedia about the Sonderkommando photographs describes those as the only surviving photos taken by prisoners inside the camps.