The main gate at Auschwitz 1. The slogan says "Arbeit macht frei" - "work will make you free".

The electric barbed wire fences.

There were dogs and machine-gunners patrolling this gap.

If it weren't for the stench of death, this would be a pleasant enough spot.

"The One Who Does Not Remember History Is Bound To Live Through It Again."

Nice of them to leave a warning sign...

The far corner of Auschwitz 1. I couldn't bring myself to take any photos of the crematoria here, or the torture chambers, the original barracks or anything else.

The main gate at Auschwitz 2.

They extended the railway into the site to "improve efficiency".

From the watchtower above the gate.

Some of the few barracks left standing. Bizarrely, all the others have brick chimneys left standing, like a field of memorials.

Anywhere else, those towers would be used to look for cattle. Here, they were manned with machine guns.

The main fence. The road on the right is just a normal road, used by locals every day to go about their business.

Through the wire to the barracks.

More barracks.

This is where the cattle trucks were unloaded, and the prisoners split between dead, to be killed, and to be worked to death.

One of the checkpoints in the camp.

The distance to the main gatehouse gives you an idea of scale - and I'm by no means at the edge.

More barracks.

One of the washing areas. Why did they bother with soap dishes, I wonder?

More washing facilities.

This is where the prisoners slept, 4 to a level.

If they were lucky they had some straw to lay over the wood.

This place actually smells of death.