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. 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. When the Soviets arrived, only 7,000 prisoners remained, unable to walk and follow their comrades on what became known as “Death Marches” to other camps. The Allied leadership decided immediately that all censorship should be lifted so the world could see evidence of the Nazi atrocities. Image: AFP / JANEK SKARZYNSKI Although the first arrivals at Nazi death camps like Auschwitz documented the horrors they found there, some of the more disturbing images were initially kept back from publication

Source: Egypt Independent January 27, 2020 07:52 UTC