Live Cams

Live Link to the Past

One of the main concerns of the exhibition "The Track. The Logistics of Racial Mania" was creating a link between the Nuremberg exhibition and the major Polish memorial sites. The idea was to bridge the enormous distance which in former days helped the National Socialists conceal their crimes, and to bring the extermination sites in Poland closer to visitors to the exhibition.

Numerous difficulties had to be overcome to transmit live images from the concentration camp memorial sites in Poland, which had never been done before. The main problems were posed by the enormous size of the former murder sites and the cover-up tactics of the Nazi extermination logistics specialists which often make it rather hard to recognize the traces of their crimes today. When the network cables were dug in, the fact that the sites are graveyards had to be respected. In co-operation with staff from the respective memorial sites, the best camera positions were determined to provide visitors to the "The Track" exhibition with a 360° panoramic view, giving them a good overview of the memorial sites.

Live transmissions were possible from four of the six memorial sites - Auschwitz, Majdanek, Bełżec and Treblinka. Interactive monitors at the exhibition give visitors a feeling for the linear link between the city of the racial laws and the locations where these laws were implemented. Because of structural problems, an internet link to the former extermination camps in Sobibór and Chełmno was unfortunately not possible. These two sites are therefore presented to exhibition visitors by a short film and an interactive panorama photograph.

The camera angles shown on the web pages correspond exactly to those which are simultaneously shown in the exhibition. If an exhibition visitor moves the camera on one of the interactive monitors, the internet images will also change when the image is updated, which is every five seconds.