Concentration camps

Underground room at former Nazi prison camp at Belsen, Germany. The room is filled with clay urns in which remains of cremated victims were sometimes placed. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."

German civilians of Gardelegen prepare to march with wooden crosses from military government office to the concentration camp a mile distant where they were ordered to inter the bodies of the camp's victims. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."

Huge pile of shoes taken off dead in former Nazi prison camp at Belsen, Germany. The camp was under the direction of the British 2nd Army after liberation. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."

German civilians listen to memorial services for victims of concentration camp shootings by S. S. troopers at Neunberg. Bodies of victims were carried by civilians from the woodland shooting site into the city for burial in the town cemetery. US Third Army chaplains conducted the services. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."

This heap of ashes and bones represents only one day's killing of prisoners by S. S. troops in the German concentration camp at Weimar, Germany, captured by troops of the 3rd U S Army. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."

Neunberg, Germany: Services were held for 120 victims of S. S. trooper shooting at Neunberg, by U. S. Third Army chaplains, as townspeople look on. The German civilians were ordered to build coffins for the victims and to bring them from the woodland shooting site to the cemetery for burial. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."

Cremating oven where a dozen or more bodies were burned at a time in former Nazi prison at Bergen-Belsen. Some prisoners were even burned alive. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities"

PFC Gustave Anderson, Lynn, Massachusetts, an MP with the XII Corps Headquarters, supervises German civilians of Neunberg making coffins for victims of mass murder of S. S. camp laborers. Bodies of victims were disinterred and reburied in the city cemetery by civilians. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."

Battered shoulder of Jewish slave laborer killed by his Nazi guard at Neunberg. Bodies were disinterred and reburied in the city cemetery by the town's civilians. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."

German civilians of Neunberg pick up bodies of concentration camp victims outside Neunberg, and remove them to the city cemetery for burial under orders of the XII corps officers. Victims were Russian and Polish Jews and were shot by S. S. Troops. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."