Holocaust victims

Political prisoners who died at Bergen-Belsen prison camp in Germany, before the allies could liberate them. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."

One of the huge mass graves at Bergen-Belsen prison camp. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."

Civilians of Ludwigslust, Germany, and nearby communities, were forced to exhume bodies of concentration camp victims from mass grave and prepare them for reburial. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."

Prisoners of war found by American 3rd Armored Div., 1st Army, when it captured the German slave labor camp at Nordhausen. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."

Schwarzenfeld, Germany. German civilians exhuming bodies of Polish Jews shot by S. S. troops during a forced march away from advancing American forces. They were shot just days before the 26th Infantry Division, 3rd U S Army took the town. The American officers ordered the civilians to exhume and individually bury the victims. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."

Large pile of bodies at Buchenwald concentration camp. The Nazis ran out of coal and were unable to cremate bodies before the camp was taken by General Patton's Third Army. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."

Bodies of over 200 Russian prisoners of war await burial by German prisoners of war near Hemer, Germany. The bodies were discovered in a building of Stalag VI A by the 99th Infantry Division, 1st U S Army. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."

Bodies of political prisoners shot by Nazis and buried in a mass grave near Ohligs, Germany. Under the supervision of the Graves Registration Unit of the 94th Division, the citizens of Ohligs exhumed the bodies and buried each individually in coffins. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."

This victim that was dug-up from a mass grave near the Wobbelin concentration camp. Civilians of the nearby town of Ludwigslust were ordered by 82nd Airborne Division Troops to exhume the bodies of Nazi atrocity victims and rebury them in the town square. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."

In a large barn just at the edge of Gardenlegen, Germany, political prisoners were burned to death by S. S. troops in an attempt to remove "evidence" in the face of the advancing Allied forces. The 9th U S Army troops captured the Gardenlegen area before the Germans had time to bury all the dead. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."