PARIS, Jan 27 — Images of what the Allies found when they liberated the first Nazi death camps towards the end of World War II brought the horror of the Holocaust to global attention. Many of the ghastly pictures were at first held back from the broader public, partly out of concern for those...
This file photo taken on January 25, 2015 in Oswiecim shows the entrance to the former Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau with the lettering 'Arbeit macht frei' . — AFP pic
The concentration and extermination camps were liberated one by one as the Allied armies advanced on Berlin in the final days of the 1939-1945 war. This mainly concerned camps in the Baltic states most exposed to advancing Soviet troops. Officers of the Schutzstaffel paramilitary in charge were ordered to cover up all traces of crimes before fleeing.
Russian and Polish investigators photographed the camps at Majdanek and Auschwitz, and US army photographers made a documentary on Struthof, the only Nazi concentration camp based in what is now France.
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