Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust Photographs

209 items in this album on 11 pages.


Corpse of a prisoner of the Leipzig-Thekla subcamp of Buchenwald Concentration Camp on a barbed wire fence, near Weimar, Germany, 1945	Gate of the Auschwitz, 1945

Liberated prisoners killing German guards at Dachau Concentration Camp, Germany, early May 1945	Polish prisoners celebrating, Dachau Concentration Camp, Germany, late Apr or early May 1945

SS officer Johann Baptist Eichelsdörfer, Commandant of Kaufering IV Konzentrationslager in Landsberg in Germany, among victims, late Apr or early May 1945	Victims at the Landsberg Concentration Camp, Landsberg am Lech, Germany, Apr-May 1945; General Charles Palmer described them as having suffered from typhus and lice

Victims of the death train that traveled from Buchenwald Concentration Camp to Dachau Concentration Camp during Apr 1945; photo taken at Dachau, Germany in late Apr or early May 1945	Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp's cleansing station where, during Nazi occupation, sick inmates were washed and deloused, Germany, 1-4 May 1945

After liberating Dachau concentration camp, members of the US 42nd Division inspecting a railroad carriage full of dead prisoners, May 1945.	Prisoners at Dachau concentration camp cheer as the US 42nd Division moves in to liberate the camp, 3 May 1945

Prisoners' barracks, Dachau Concentration Camp, Germany, 3 May 1945	Rings left by Buchenwald concentration camp victims, 5 May 1945

Former prisoners of Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camp welcoming the troops of 11th Armored Division of US Third Army, Austria, 6 May 1945	Recently liberated prisoners of a concentration camp near Ebensee, Austria, 7 May 1945

Citizens of Ludwigslust, Germany made aware of the atrocities at a nearby concentration camp, May 1945	German citizens made aware of the atrocities at a nearby prisoners of war camp for captured Soviets, Suttrop, Germany, May 1945

Bodies of victims piled in a cart, awaiting proper burial, Gusen Concentration Camp, Muhlhausen, near Linz, Austria, 12 May 1945	Starving inmate of Camp Gusen, Austria, 12 May 1945

Russian former prisoner liberated by US 3rd Armored Division pointing out former Nazi guard who brutally beat prisoners, possibly at Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp, Nordhausen, Germany, 14 May 1945	A German woman covering her nose and mouth as she walked by the 800 exhumed bodies of forced laborers murdered by SS men, near Nammering, Germany, 17 May 1945