World War, 1939-1945

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."

Wobbelin, Germany, concentration camp inmates after the camp's capture by troops of the 82nd Airborne Division, 9th United States Army. 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."

Physical evidence of malnutrition in one of the prisoners murdered by fleeing Nazis before the Ohrdurf concentration camp was captured by Third Army troops. From: album entitled: "Nazi War Atrocities."

Mass victims taken from Gardelegen camp by German civilians for burial nearby under supervision of 102nd Division of Ninth United States Army. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."

A pile of dead prisoners found by American Third Armored Division, Fusa, when it captured the German slave labor camp at Nordhausen. Hundred of emaciated bodies covered the barracks. From: album entitled: "Nazi War Atrocities."

A truck load of bodies of prisoners in a German concentration camp at Weimar, Germany. The bodies were about to be disposed of by burning, when the camp was captured by troops of the 3rd United States Army. From: album entitled: "Nazi War Atrocities."

Dozens of bodies of concentration camp victims. Charred bodies lay among the dead. From: album entitled: "Nazi War Atrocities."

Lifeless eyes stare from the broken, starved body of a slave found by American 3rd Armored Division, First Army, when it captured a German slave labor camp near Nordhausen. Hundreds of emaciated bodies covered barracks where Russians, Polish, French, Belgian and Italian captives lived with their dead. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."