Photographs of the Holocaust

Dachau

• A chart of prisoner markings used in German concentration camps
  

Camp Views

• View of a section of the camp
  
• Prisoners' barracks
  
• A section of the camp
  
• A watch tower
  
• Survivors and U.S. troops at the entrance to camp
  

While Camp in Operation

• Prisoners with their mess kits on their way to the camp kitchen
  
• Inmates gathered outside and on the roof tops of a camp building to hear a speech by Hitler
  
• Prisoners caring for the camp's Angora rabbits
  
• The corpse of Abraham Borenstein lies in the foreground after his execution by the SS
  
• Prisoners working in a munitions factory
  
• A prisoner forced to stand without moving for hours as a punishment
  
• Prisoners outside of the "Revier", the camp's infirmary
  

Experiments

• A prisoner in a special chamber responds to changing air pressure during high-altitude experiments
  
• A prisoner who has been subjected to low pressure experimentation
  
• This prisoner has been subjected to low pressure experimentation
  
• Dr. Klaus Karl Schilling, a physician at the Dachau concentration camp, defends himself in the docket at the Dachau trial
  

Himmler's Visit

• Heinrich Himmler and other Nazi dignitaries in Dachau with Anton Mussert
  
• Reichsfuehrer SS Heinrich Himmler, Dutch Nazi leader Anton Mussert, and other SS officials view a large-scale model of the camp
  

Gas Chambers & Crematorium

• The new crematorium in Dachau
  
• Two ovens inside the crematorium
  
• A soldier from the U.S. 7th Army examines the door to a gas chamber
  
• American soldiers in front of the crematorium in Dachau. The corpses on the left are of SS personnel
  
• A survivor stokes smoldering human remains in a crematorium oven
  

Death Marches

• A view of a death march from Dachau
  
• A column of prisoners being evacuated
  
• A view of the death march
  
• A view of the death march
  
• A view of a death march from Dachau
  
• View of concentration camp prisoners marching through a village while on a death march
  

Survivors Welcoming Liberators

• Survivors cheer the arrival of American liberators
  
• Young and old survivors cheer approaching U.S. troops
  
• Polish prisoners toast their liberation from the camp
  
• American soldiers examine disinfected prisoner uniforms
  

Survivors

• An American soldier stands guard outside while survivors bathe in the moat
  
• A liberated Russian prisoner is deloused
  
• American medical personnel at work in a typhus ward in a hospital for survivors
  
• Survivors distribute bread to their comrades after liberation
  
• Survivors in a crowded barrack after liberation
  
• Survivors sit on the steps of a barracks after liberation
  
• Survivors in a barracks, behind barbed-wire
  
• American medical personnel at work in a typhus ward in a hospital for Dachau survivors
  
• A survivor on the day of liberation
  
• Survivors praying in the camp infirmary after liberation
  
• Survivors
  
• Two survivors prepare food outside the barracks. The man on the right, presumably, is the only black prisoner in Dachau
  
• American medical personnel administer Typhus tests to survivors in a hospital
  

The Dead

• U.S. troops watch a passing cart laden with corpses intended for burial
  
• Railway cars loaded with the corpses of prisoners who died in route
  
• Death train in Dachau
  
• Congressman John M. Vorys(right) viewing a room full of corpses while on an inspection
  
• Group of American editors and publishers are shown the corpses of prisoners
  
• American force boys believed to be Hitler youth to examine boxcars containing bodies of prisoners starved to death
  

Camp Guards Killed

• SS guards lie at the base of a guard tower, where they were shot by American troops
  
• American soldiers in front of the crematorium in Dachau. The corpses on the left are of SS personnel
  
• U.S. Army soldiers execute camp guards following liberation
  

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