Concentration camps

Troops of the American 82nd Airborne Division view bodies of inmates at Wobbelin, a subcamp of the Neuengamme concentration camp. Germany, May 6, 1945. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."

Site of mass burning of 250 Polish and French slave laborers at Nazi camp near Leipzig on April 19, 1945, the day before the city was captured by the 69th Div. of the U.S. First Army. The victims were herded into a building. A time bomb was exploded. Men who broke doors down to escape were machine gunned by Nazi S.S. troops. From: album entitled: Nazi War Atrocities."

The "hospital" section of a Nazi prisoner of war camp in Germany. Six men were placed in each tier. The man on the lower tier is dead. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."

Mutilated body of a slave laborer at Lager-Nordhausen concentration camp. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."

Bodies of hundreds of slave laborers of all nationalities lay in the yard at Lager-Nordhausen concentration camp. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."

These emaciated, nude corpses, stacked like cord-wood in a bin at the concentration camp at Gotha, Germany were strewn with quicklime in a hap-hazarded attempt to destroy evidence. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."

Prisoners' quarters at the former Nazi prison camp at Belsen, Germany. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."

Camp Buchenwald furnaces are viewed by civilians of Weimar, forced by United States Third Army Military Police to walk through the camp to view the Nazi atrocities. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."

After being liberated, prisoners at Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany managed to find a little food. This photo is one of a series of photographs taken by a rehabilitation officer of the U S. Army Chief Surgeon's office, when he arrived at the camp three days after Weimar was taken by the U S. Third Army. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."

Capt. William T. Drake, Commanding Officer, examines tubercular Russian slave laborer at the displaced persons center in Dortmund, Germany. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."