Liberation

An American officer is surrounded by survivors at the newly liberated Dachau concentration camp.
Date: Apr 29, 1945 - May 1, 1945
Locale: Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany
Credit: USHMM, courtesy of Robert Black
Copyright: USHMM

An African-American soldier with the 12th Armored Division, Seventh U.S. Army, stands guard over a group of German soldiers captured in the forest.
Date: Apr 1945
Locale: Germany
Photographer: Office of War Information
Credit: USHMM, courtesy of National Archives
Copyright: Public Domain

American soldiers view the bodies of prisoners shot by the SS during the evacuation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp.
Date: Apr 4, 1945
Locale: Ohrdruf, [Thuringia] Germany
Credit: USHMM, courtesy of Lawrence Geiger
Copyright: USHMM

A survivor in Dachau on the day of liberation.
Date: Apr 29, 1945
Locale: Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany
Photographer: Sidney Blau
Credit: USHMM, courtesy of National Archives
Copyright: Public Domain

American soldiers walk among emaciated survivors along a road in the Ebensee concentration camp.
Date: May 8, 1945
Locale: Ebensee, Austria
Credit: USHMM, courtesy of Bert Weston
Copyright: USHMM

Comments

[Cosmic X]

A picture says a thousand words. Thanks for posting them.

[twitter.com/303acidstorm]

Horrific pictures..That the ones who died and the living find peace ever.... I can't imagine such kind of Life they had to go trough... It is very sad so many peoples lifes are destroyed by hate and propaganda... Learn from the past..and teach your children respect and manners..No hate and racism... Still today...War and suffering... When will people learn to live in peace. Respect for your Blog...and that many will read it.. Cheers michael 34 yrs old from Amsterdam the Netherlands

[Dominic]

My grandfather assisted in the liberation of this camp.