Concentration camps

Starved prisoners, nearly dead from hunger, pose in Nazi concentration camp in Ebensee, Austria. In the Austrian Alps the Nazis had one of their largest camps. Large numbers of inmates were starving to death and dying at the rate of 2000 per week. The camp was reputedly used for "scientific" experiments. It was liberated by the 80th Division, 3rd U.S. Army. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."

The body of a concentration camp prisoner showing extreme emaciation. The prisoner had just died from starvation and was being hauled to the incinerator. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."

Bodies of dead children found in concentration camp at Nordhausen lie in mass burial grave. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."

Two surviving prisoners walk among bodies of victims of mass burning of slave laborers at a 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 and 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."

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." This album was presented to President Truman by the Army Pictorial Service.

At the Displaced Persons Farm, Furth, Germany, Ambassador Edwin Pauley (fourth from left) stands with three boys identified as having been born in the infamous Nazi Buchenwald Concentration Camp. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-1947 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Survivors of the Amphing concentration camp in Amphing, Germany, liberated by United States Third Army troops.

Patients in a hospital at the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany, after the camp was liberated by the Allies.

Former unidentified concentration camp internees at Buchenwald near Weimar, Germany share an afternoon meal.