
Illustration 1
View of the Dachau Concentration Camp, after liberation. Germany, April 29, 1945. Page 22.
Illustration 2
View of prisoners’ barracks soon after the liberation of the Dachau Concentration Camp. Dachau, Germany, May 3, 1945. Page 22.
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Barracks in Esterwegen at Esterwegen Concentration Camp during the war. It is located in Ostfriesland, near the Dutch border. Today it is a memorial site. Page 35.
Illustration 7
Lavrentiy P. Beria, Head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, MVD, and of the NKVD as well as Marshal of the Soviet Union. Page 92.
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Colonel General Ivan Serov; he survived the Stalinist and subsequent purges and became head of the KGB (successor to the NKVD) as well of as the GRU (Military Intelligence). Page 103.
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A Soviet prison train. In such cattle cars, the prisoners were taken to the Spezlager or to the Gulag Camps in the Soviet Union. Page 141.
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The cemetery at Fünfeichen Special Camp #9, containing mass graves of prisoners. Page 186.