Photographs lay bare scale of Nazi extermination machine


Photographs lay bare scale of Nazi extermination machine


WARNING - DISTRESSING IMAGES: Heartbreaking horrors of the Holocaust have been brought into light again thanks to a series of colourised images in a project led by artist Joel Bellviure, 17, who lives between Palma, Mallorca and Barcelona, Spain



The executions of Jews by German army mobile killing units, the Einsatzgruppen, after they had dug their own graves, near Ivangorod, Ukraine, 1942. The victims are wearing bags on their heads.


Senator Alben W. Barkley, member of a committee investigating Nazi atrocities, looks at a pile of bodies at Buchenwald concentration camp. The bodies had been left out in the sun and rain for almost two weeks after the liberation of Buchenwald on April 11, 1945. There had been so many deaths before the liberation of the camp that the crematorium ovens were not able to keep up.


Members of the 42nd Rainbow Division, 7th US Army uncovering a wagon transporting some of the horrors of Dachau. Dachau was the first of the Nazi concentration camps in Germany, intended to hold political prisoners.


Starving children asking for alms in the Warsaw Ghetto. Over 400,000 Jews were imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto after it was established by German authorities between October and November 1940. From there, Jews were deported to concentration and extermination camps.


American soldiers force German civilians from the town of Volary to walk past a group exhumed bodies of 30 Jewish women starved to death by SS troops in a 300-mile march from Helmbrechts concentration camp across Czechoslovakia and then buried, May 1945.


A few of the thousands of wedding rings the Nazis removed from their victims to salvage the gold, in a cave near the Buchenwald. US troops found rings, watches, precious stones, eyeglasses and gold fillings extracted from inmates.


Prisoner number 40472 of the Auschwitz concentration camp who was identified as Michal Loborski. He died on April 15, 1942. SS staff took up to 50,000 identity pictures between 1940 and 1945.


Inmates of the Ampfing sub-camps in Germany after having been liberated by US Third Army troops in1945. Sub-camps are a lesser known aspect of the concentration camp system in Nazi Germany.

Prisoners in the Waldlager V and VI, located near the town of Ampfing, were housed in barracks partially submerged in the ground with soil-covered roofs designed to camouflage the structures from Allied aerial reconnaissance.

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