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Auschwitz photographer Wilhelm Brasse dies at 95

WARSAW - Wilhelm Brasse, a former Auschwitz prisoner whose photographs from inside the Nazi death camp provided a chilling historical chronicle of the horrors committed there, has died at the age of 95, an Auschwitz Museum historian said on Wednesday.
Brasse, who died on Tuesday, was sent to the camp after he was caught in 1940 trying to flee Nazi occupied Poland to join the Polish military in exile. He was put in a work detail which had to haul bodies from the gas chambers to be incinerated.
When his jailers at Auschwitz discovered he was an experienced photographer, they set him to work taking pictures of prisoners for the prison's internal files, and recording the visits of senior German officials for posterity.