30 Holocaust Photos That Reveal Heartbreaking Tragedy You Don’t See In History Books

16Staff enjoying at Auschwitz

One wonders if those who worked for the Nazis had any conscience at all. How could you remain normal in the face of the brutality unfolding before your eyes, unless you too were bitten by the barbaric bug. 

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17Observe the men in the front row

Those officers you see in the front row were enjoying themselves in this photo and that might have been their last time together. The next time they all stood together were at the Nuremberg trials when most of them in the front row were hanged.. 

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18The angel of death

The only one who wasn’t caught and hanged at Nuremberg was Josef Mengele the “angel of death” who escaped to South America and died in Brazil aged 67. 

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19Freedom

Jewish Prisoners freed by allied soldiers near Madgeburg Germany while they were being taken to a death camp by train. 

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20Nazis made to dig graves

A photo of Nazi soldiers made to exhume and dig proper graves for the executed prisoners at Bergen Belsen camp October 1945.

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