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Auschwitz Blueprints Go on Display Israel’s Holocaust Memorial Yad Vashem

Posted byDarko TopalskiJanuary 27, 2010

An exhibition, showing the blueprints of the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz, at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem. The neat lines and rectangular sketchings appear to look like any other typical architectural design. But the handwritten initials H.H., penned by the infamous Nazi SS chief Heinrich Himmler, indicate what the seemingly innocuous drawings really represent: wooden barracks, gas chambers and crematoria. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)