Photos German Concentration Camps

guest0001 · Jan 27, 2021

Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp in Germany after liberation - May 1945
WARNING!! Pictures of concentration camp victims
The camp was liberated on April 15, 1945, by the British 11th Armored Division
60,000 prisoners were found inside, most of them half-starved and seriously ill, with another 13,000 corpses lying around the camp unburied
LIFE Magazine Archives - George Rodger Photographer

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Jake84 · Jan 27, 2021

And the infamous “Joseph Kramer” (nicknamed the beast of Belsen) in custody before being hanged, who led the camp for the last years. He was also a commander at Birkenau if memory serves:

(Wikipedia images)

Connaught Ranger · Jan 27, 2021

May the millions of victims of Nazi Oppression Rest In Peace - May the horrors they endured and the names of the guilty never be forgotten.

Иван Феоктистов · Jan 27, 2021

On January 27, 1945, troops of the 59th and 60th armies of the 1st Ukrainian Front under the command of Marshal of the Soviet Union I.S.Konev in cooperation with the troops of the 38th Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front under the command of Colonel General I.E. Petrov during the Vistula-Oder operation, the Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated.

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Yevgeny · Jan 28, 2021

Too bad Germans never made it until August 1945, they definately deserved few nuclear bombs...

Connaught Ranger · Jan 28, 2021

Иван Феоктистов said:
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The above photographs are (and I mean no disrespect to the liberators) staged after the original liberation day, the inmates were too weak from starvation and inhuman treatment to participate at that time, there also was a heavy snowfall when the camp was liberated.

guest0001 · Jan 30, 2021

General Dwight D Eisenhower and the US Army's 6th Armored Division at Buchenwald Concentration Camp 1945, This killing center was located in Weimar Germany and was liberated by American forces then placed under Soviet control after WW2's concusion.

guest0001 · Jan 30, 2021

"Ruth, if you read about concentration camps and such over here.. I want you to multiply it by about one hundred of what you read and hear and you may get an idea of a fraction of the cruelties delivered to some people. The best of the camps are worse than you can imagine by looking at the papers.
I had a chance to see one of those camps in our mopping up experience. This camp the
people had been condemned to starve to death by slow torture. If they managed to survive several months of starvation rations, they had gasoline pumped into their blood to kill them quicker. Their ration consisted of a drink of coffee and a small bowl of soup (no meat in the soup) a day. Many days they had nothing.
When I came into camp the army had already started to salvage as many lives as possible. In one week only 9,000 had died after the army took over. Over 40,000 remained living; of which thousands.. would undoubtedly die before any help could be given. Of the few thousand that lived nearly half would be insane. That is doctor's estimate. 30,000 were lying about the ground, in barracks, stacked in piles, or strewn all over everything. To get things straight I'll tell all about it from the beginning of my being there.
We came up to one side of the enclosure and walked around it till we found an opening. We
saw ten graves with from 800 in the smallest to 5,000 in the larger ones that the army had already buried. There were several large ones the Germans made that the contents were unknown. Thousands of people were hobbling around or lying around the enclosure. They were as animals living together. When nature called they took care of it there not even taking as much care as a dog or a cat would. Men, women, and children so far gone they talked of nothing but existing and many didn't even think of that, they just existed without thinking. Many were too feeble to get back on their feet after squatting. I'm talking plain because I don't know of anyway to explain otherwise. Many died while they still squatted. All had the diarrhea.
I went inside and had myself dusted with lice powder to prevent typhus. We started from
that point to look the camp over. The doctors were busy cleaning the people up. Ambulances ran steady day and night taking those too feeble to move away to a hospital. Those still able to walk came in, stripped naked, took a shower, put on their clothes and were deloused. I stood there and watched about two hundred come in. They thought nothing of dropping what clothes they had on in front of us as we stood there. They had
lost all personal pride or cared nothing about men watching them.. If you would take the average size woman and cut every scrap of flesh off her hips and arms and face and pulled a light skin over the bones you would have a pretty good idea of how they looked. Parts that should stick out, stuck in. Parts that should stick in stuck out. Their busts looked like a toy balloon with all the air out of them.
A young woman who had been an inmate for a couple weeks and was still in pretty good
health showed us around. She told us that in the two weeks she had been there she had had three bowls of soup. She took us around. We visited a woman's barracks. On a floor about the size of our army floors, were from 500 - 600 women. They were all dying. No one was able yet to get to that building to help except to feed them a little better. Most of them were hysterical and out of their heads. A few dropped their heads in shame as we went through. People lay on top of one another. Some raised their heads and pleaded for help. We were there about three
minutes and while we stood there two women died. They were dying at the rate of two to three hundred a day even yet after we were helping all we could. In a building that you might think crowded for forty chickens they had a hundred women. If ever in my life I wanted to help it was then, and I was helpless. I could do nothing. It was up to the doctor and his men. The men were taking the women by the hundreds (those too weak to walk) to a hospital where they stripped them and laid them on a table enclouded in steam and ran warm water over them and washed them. Then they deloused them and left the rest for the nurses and doctors. They were doing a swell job.
We went to the crematorium. Thousands beyond numbers had been burned there. There was a large pile of human ashes there. They (the Germans) would bottle up the ashes and send to the people's living relatives and charge burial services for them.
We went to the men's section and there saw that feeble men still able to walk were dragging the dead out to make more room for the living. Often the ones dragging the others out would fall and die while we watched. We didn't dare give a hand because of too many diseases and we weren't prepared against them. Men strew the streets.
Many of the buildings the size of what we generally have 33 men in in our army had 1,000 men in it. About six hundred of those were dead. They were lying four deep and the bottom three layers were dead with their hearts eaten out.
We walked around the camp on tip-toes to keep from stepping in fresh deposits of humans. The dried ones were thick enough so it was several inches thick all over the ground but by being careful we wouldn't need to have any cling to our shoes. The smell was so terrific we could scarcely breathe..
I watched them unload several hundred women that had died. By the time their last breath was taken some one else would have every stitch of clothing off her body in order to keep themselves warm. Women usually weighing from a hundred to a hundred and fifty lbs, were light enough so the people burying them picked them up with one hand and by a flip of the wrist threw them into the middle of the grave. A thousand were already in the grave when I was there.
I would like to tell you more but afraid to talk too plain, afraid you'd think I was awful. I
can't explain it at all.. The things I have told have been the bright side of the camp. I could not tell the dark side in a written
language, I'm afraid. If you would see it all on a screen you wouldn't get the feeling I had. One thing, the smell wouldn't be there.
One woman there said she saw a thousand electrocuted in front of her at a different camp. They made them dig their own graves and then electrocuted them and some of the prisoners would bury them. She saw her whole family killed that way except her baby. She protested too strongly when they went to kill him that way so two men tore the baby in half alive in front of her. Her punishment for resisting them was not to be killed but condemned to death by starvation and torture. They nearly beat her to death and sent her to this camp. For some that is hard [to grasp] but I know it to be true. The woman carries groves cut in her back by a whip one inch deep and better than a foot long. They have found hundreds of bodies torn to bits and examination shows it was done while the person was still alive. Several people told stories of this kind and was able to back them up.
The camp left an impression and a picture in my mind I'll never forget.. I've written a lot of stuff but all true. I wish I could see you and talk with you. Some things I could say better than writing. On the other hand maybe a week from now, I will feel better. Now, I'm still sick from all I've seen the last two weeks..
Franklin"
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The above letter was written by Lt. Franklin Hepworth, commander of Assault Gun Platoon, HQ/Co, 40th Tank Battalion, US 7th Armored Division (attached at the time to the British 2nd Army) to his sister shortly after his experience at the Bergen Belsen concentration camp.
He never forgot. Neither should we.
#HolocaustRemembranceDay
Photograph taken by an US 7th Armored Division soldier at Bergen Belsen.

guest0001 · Jan 30, 2021

Dead inmates at the newly liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, one still clutching his tin used for carrying water, lie sprawled over a heap of straw as British relief efforts get under way. When British and Canadian forces advanced on Bergen-Belsen, the German Army negotiated a truce and exclusion zone around the camp to prevent the spread of typhus, which was rampant within the camp. When the British and Canadians finally entered the camp on 15 April 1945 they discovered thousands of unburied bodies and (including satellite camps) at least 53,000 starving and sick inmates. Although liberated, many inmates continued to succumb to disease and starvation. Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, near Celle, Lower Saxony, Germany. April 1945.
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***WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGES***
International Holocaust Day.
"Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened."
Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Never to be forgotten...

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