Liberation of concentration camps

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Rows of bodies of dead concentration camp victims laid out on the ground, Buchenwald, Germany, May 1945
Photograph. Hundreds of bodies of dead concentration camp victims laid out in rows on the ground inside Buchenwald...
Rows of bodies of dead concentration camp victims laid out on the ground, Buchenwald, Germany, May 1945
Photograph. Rows of corpses laid out on the ground inside Buchenwald concentration camp; war-damaged buildings visible...
Rows of bodies of dead concentration camp victims laid out on the ground, Buchenwald, Germany, May 1945
Photograph. Blurry image of hundreds of bodies of dead concentration camp victims laid out on the ground inside...
Sick and half-starved prisoners are evacuated from the Wöbbelin concentration camp, Germany, May 1945
Photograph. Sick and half-starved prisoners being removed from the Wöbbelin concentration camp for treatment at a...
Sick and starving inmates found at Wöbbelin concentration camp, Germany, 1945
Photograph. Sick and starving inmates found at Wöbbelin concentration camp. Official Caption: "(Series of 16) (Page One...
Side of Dachau concentration camp, Germany, 1945
Photograph. Side of Dachau concentration camp surronded by a barded wire fence and moat. Official caption on front: "...
Side of Dachau concentration camp, Germany, 1945
Photograph. Side of Dachau concentration camp surronded by a barded wire fence and moat. Official caption on front: "...
Soldiers standing near bodies of dead concentration camp victims, Buchenwald, Germany, May 1945
Photograph. Blurry image of hundreds of bodies of dead concentration camp victims laid out on the ground inside...
The insides of three crematoria chambers at a concentration camp at an unknown location in Europe circa 1945
The insides of three crematorium chambers at a concentration camp, with cremains still visible. Unknown location in...
Thin concentration camp prisoner inside Buchenwald concentration camp, Germany, May 1945
Photograph. Thin concentration camp prisoner inside Buchenwald concentration camp. Personal caption on photo reverse: "...
Transportation of corpses from Dachau concentraction camp, Germany, 1945
Photograph. Prisoners in striped uniforms carry an emaciated man on a stretcher; a cart with a pile of corpses is next...
Transportation of corpses from Dachau concentraction camp, Germany, 1945
Photograph. Prisoners in striped uniforms carry an emaciated man on a stretcher; a cart with a pile of corpses is next...
U.S. servicemen looking at rows of bodies of dead concentration camp victims, Buchenwald, Germany, May 1945
Photograph. U.S. servicemen looking at hundreds of bodies of dead concentration camp victims laid out on the ground...
U.S. servicemen standing outside of Buchenwald concentration camp, Weimar, Germany, May 1945
Photograph. U.S. servicemen standing just outside Buchenwald concentration camp, probably shortly after its liberation...
U.S. soldier helping emaciated Wöbbelin concentration camp victim into truck, Germany, May 1945
Photograph. U.S. soldier helping emaciated Wöbbelin concentration camp victim into truck. Official Caption: [damaged] "...
U.S. soldier is too late to save a victim of the Wöbbelin concentration camp, Germany, May 1945
Photograph. U.S. soldier attempting in vain to aid former prisoner of the Wöbbelin concentration camp who died on...
U.S. soldiers caring for concentration camps prisoners in TB ward, Dachau, 1945
Photograph. U.S. soldiers caring for ill concentration camps prisoners in newly liberated Dachau's tuberculosis ward....
U.S. soldiers caring for ill patients in a typhus ward, Dachau, 1945
Photograph. U.S. soldiers caring for ill concentration camps prisoners in newly liberated Dachau's typhus ward. Printed...
Victim of the Wöbbelin concentration camp, Germany, May 1945
Photograph. Corpse of concentration camp victim labeled as malnourished. Official Caption: "This victim of the Nazi...
Victims of the Gardelegen massacre in Gardelegen, Germany on 15 April 1945
Victims of the Gardelegen massacre. Gardelegen, Germany. 15 April 1945
View from the machine gun tower overlooking newly liberated Dachau concentration camp, Germany, 1945
Photograph. View from the machine gun tower overlooking newly liberated Dachau concentration camp. Shows moat, barbed...
View looking out onto barracks at Buchenwald concentration camp, Weimar, Germany, May 1945
Photograph. View looking out onto barracks at Buchenwald concentration camp. Personal caption on photo reverse: "Scene...
Young concentration camp prisoner displaying branded identification number, Buchenwald, Germany, May 1945
Photograph. Young concentration camp prisoner displaying branded camp identification number [not visible in photograph...

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