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The Liberation of Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp – Incredible Photos Showing The Reality of The Death Camps at The End of WWII

In the spring of 1945, photographs and witness accounts from the liberation of camps like Bergen-Belsen afforded the disbelieving world outside of Europe its first glimpse into the abyss of Nazi depravity. These incredible photographs below were taken by LIFE photographer George Rodger in April 1945 when he accompanied the British 11th Armoured Division (the fabled “Black Bull”) into the camp just days earlier.

(Photos: George Rodger—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

German boy walking down a dirt road lined w. the corpses of hundreds of prisoners who have died of starvation nr. Bergen extermination camp.





British doctor using DDT while delousing newly freed female prisoners at the Bergen Belsen concentration camp.




Female prisoners in the newly liberated Bergen Belsen concentration camp.




Female prisoners sifting through garbage for food at the recently liberated Bergen Belsen concentration camp.

Portrait of Magdalene Kessal, 25, a domestic servant who served as SS girl at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

New internees of the freshly liberated Bergen Belsen concentration camp include this pair of French brothers, Charles and Louis Perret, wearing white boots they took from the Germans.




German guard being forced to put bodies of prisoners into a mass grave at the Bergen Belsen concentration camp.




British doctor administers delousing treatment of DDT up the skirt of an embarrassed looking female prisoner who is among the 60,000 prisoners just released from Bergen Belsen concentration camp after its liberation by Allied forces.




Weak and dying prisoners stretch out on dirt bank behind Bergen Belsen barracks after the concentration camp was liberated by Allied troops.




German SS soldier who passed out from carrying corpses being carried by two others at the Bergen Belsen concentration camp.

Female SS soldiers filling mass grave w. corpses while under guard by British soldiers at the Bergen Belsen concentration camp.




Corpses lying on ground at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.




Liberated women at concentration camp prepare for DDT dusting against vermin.

Dead and dying prisoners at the newly liberated Bergen Belsen concentration camp.

Annalese Kohlmann, former Nazi female guard noted for her cruelty, now a prisoner in the recently liberated Bergen Belsen concentration camp.

Male & female German SS soldiers being forced to load corpses onto trucks under British guard at the Bergen Belsen concentration camp.

British doctors using DDT to delouse newly liberated prisoners at the Bergen Belsen concentration camp.

Newly liberated prisoners waiting on line for food at the Bergen Belsen concentration camp.

Newly liberated prisoners at the Bergen Belsen concentration camp lining up for food shortly after Allied forces overran the area.

Female German camp guards being forced to unload truck full of the bodies of deceased prisoners at the Bergen Belsen concentration camp.

Body of a dead inmate of the Bergen Belsen concentration camp shortly after the liberation of the camp by Allied troops.

Four web captures from 2016, then---technical difficulties

Feb. 5, 2016
https://web.archive.org/web/20160205225420/http://www.vintag.es/2016/02/the-liberation-of-bergen-belsen.html

March 2, 2016
https://web.archive.org/web/20160302074636/http://www.vintag.es/2016/02/the-liberation-of-bergen-belsen.html

April 2, 2016
https://web.archive.org/web/20160402061216/http://www.vintag.es/2016/02/the-liberation-of-bergen-belsen.html

May 3, 2016
https://web.archive.org/web/20160503191910/http://www.vintag.es/2016/02/the-liberation-of-bergen-belsen.html

The "Lviv Pogroms" in 1941

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2016

30 Shocking Historical Photos of the Lviv Pogroms in 1941

The city of Lvov (L'viv) in southeastern Poland was occupied by the Soviet Union in 1939, under the terms of the German-Soviet Pact. There were over 200,000 Jews in Lvov in September 1939; nearly 100,000 were Jewish refugees from German-occupied Poland. The Germans subsequently occupied Lvov after the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941.

Encouraged by German forces to begin violent actions against the Jewish population in Lvov, Ukrainian nationalists massacred about 4,000 Jews in early July 1941. Another pogrom, known as the Petliura Days, was organized in late July. This pogrom was named for Simon Petliura, who had organized anti-Jewish pogroms in the Ukraine after World War I. For three days, Ukrainian militants went on a rampage through the Jewish districts of Lvov. They took groups of Jews to the Jewish cemetery and to Lunecki prison and shot them. More than 2,000 Jews were murdered and thousands more were injured.

In early November 1941, the Germans established a ghetto in the north of Lvov. German police shot thousands of elderly and sick Jews as they crossed the bridge on Peltewna Street on their way to the ghetto. In March 1942, the Germans began deporting Jews from the ghetto to the Belzec extermination camp.

By August 1942, more than 65,000 Jews had been deported from the Lvov ghetto and murdered. Thousands of Jews were sent for forced labor to the nearby Janowska camp. In early June 1943, the Germans destroyed the ghetto, killing thousands of Jews in the process. The remaining ghetto residents were sent to the Janowska forced-labor camp or deported to Belzec.





























































































Posted October 21, 2016
http://www.vintag.es/2016/10/30-shocking-historical-photos-of-lviv.html

Two web captures

Oct. 24, 2016
https://web.archive.org/web/20161024153614/http://www.vintag.es/2016/10/30-shocking-historical-photos-of-lviv.html

Dec. 12, 2016
https://web.archive.org/web/20161212154538/http://www.vintag.es/2016/10/30-shocking-historical-photos-of-lviv.html

Then

This site can’t be reached

www.vintag.es unexpectedly closed the connection.

August 15, 1946, Chicago Tribune, page 34, Dr. Ivy Indicts Nazi Doctors For Atrocities; Murder and Mutilation Practiced in War,

August 15, 1946, Chicago Tribune, page 34, Dr. Ivy Indicts Nazi Doctors For Atrocities; Murder and Mutilation Practiced in War,

War crimes of a medical nature committed by the Nazi regime surpass all of the inhumanities of man to man recorded in human history"om the view of Dr. Andrew C. Ivy , chairman of the department of physiology at Northwestern university medical school.

D.r Ivy, soon to become a vice president of the University of Illinois in charge of the institution´s professional schools in Chicago, has just returned from Germany, where he made a three week survey for the war crimes commission as a result of which between 70 and 90 German medical men will be tried as war criminals.

Nazi Doctors Indicted

In his report to the commission, Dr. Ivy pointed out that there were two classes of medical crimes: Non-experimental and experimental. In the first group were these crime:

Mass killing, including that done to rid the reich of persons too old or weak to work, or killings to make room for newcomers in crowded concentration camps; many methods were used, among them exposure to potassium cyanide fumes and intravenous injections of deadly drugs.

Murder to obtain specimens for anthropological museums.

Mutilation, either wanton or for the apparent purpose of ¨training¨ medical students.

Brutality, such as injection of drugs to cause convulsions in prisoners who failed to stand at rigid attention, performance of operations by nonmedical personnel, and unhygienic conditions in hospitals, prisons, and concentration camps.

Human Rights Disregarded

In the experimental category of medical crimes, Dr. Ivy listed those ¨committed against human beings without their consent and in complete disregard of their human rights,¨ and declared that many were committed so that they failed to avoid unnecessary suffering and injury, and with death a premeditated end, Included in this group were:

1. Injection of virulent typhus into a nonimmunized ¨control¨ group of humans.
2. Introduction of living tuberculosis germs into the trachea.
3. Experiments on phosphorus burns of the skin.
4. Cutting away of muscle ligament or shortening of limb bones to determine functional impairment.
5. Transplanting of tissues of various sorts, and attempts to transplant legs and organs [long recognized by medical science as impractical].
6. Introduction of ¨gas gangrene¨ germs into humans.
7. Experiments involving rupture of the uterus, artificial insemination, and attempts to produce multiple births to increase the reproduction rate among the Germans. Indecencies, Dr. Ivy said, marked many of these crimes.

Experiments in Sterilization

The survey also said cited nazi experiments in secret methods of sterilizing enemy populations. These included placing the dried juice of a plant in the food, secretly subjecting the persons to X-rays while they were filling out governmental forms, and injecting a sterilizing agent into women while ostensibly performing a routine physical examination.