Номер объектаM2013/027:008
СоздательBritish War Office
ОписаниеThis photograph depicts captured S.S. soldiers who were forced at bayonet point to load the bodies of the prisoners who died at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp onto lorries to be buried. This is a similar scene but from a different angle to another photograph in the collection [M2013/027:005].
This photograph is historically significant as it was taken by the British Army as evidence of the atrocities that took place and were seen by the Allied forces during and after the camp’s liberation.
There is a carbon-copy caption attached on to the back of the image which reads:
“British Official Photograph No. SU 3797 WB.
(War Office Photo – Crown Copyright Reserved)
BELSEN HORROR CAMP.
During the advance of the 2nd Army the huge concentration camp at Belsen, was relieved. Some 80,000 civilians mostly suffering from Typhus, Typhoid and Dysentery are dying in their hundreds daily, despite the frantic efforts being made by medical services rushed to the camp.
The camp was declared a neutral area before we arrived and the Allied Military Government stood by to reach the camp at the earliest possible moment, to be faced by the most indescribable scenes of 60,000 people starving and without water for over six days. The camps were littered with dead and dying and on closer investigation it was discovered that the huts capable of housing about 30 people in many cases were holding as many as 500, it was impossible to estimate the number of the dead among them, the others were too weak to remove the bodies so they just had to remain. In many cases they had died by suffocation, being too weak to move. Despite all this horror S.S. guards still remained in command of the camp, including the Commandant and now the S.S. men.
The super-men as they call themselves are being made to cart and bury in their thousands, the unfortunate civilians who had been slowly tortured to death. In most cases their only crime being that they were born Jews.
Picture shows: S.S. men captured at the camp are forced at bayonet point to remove the dead bodies of their victims to lorries for burial.
This photograph is historically significant as it was taken by the British Army as evidence of the atrocities that took place and were seen by the Allied forces during and after the camp’s liberation.
There is a carbon-copy caption attached on to the back of the image which reads:
“British Official Photograph No. SU 3797 WB.
(War Office Photo – Crown Copyright Reserved)
BELSEN HORROR CAMP.
During the advance of the 2nd Army the huge concentration camp at Belsen, was relieved. Some 80,000 civilians mostly suffering from Typhus, Typhoid and Dysentery are dying in their hundreds daily, despite the frantic efforts being made by medical services rushed to the camp.
The camp was declared a neutral area before we arrived and the Allied Military Government stood by to reach the camp at the earliest possible moment, to be faced by the most indescribable scenes of 60,000 people starving and without water for over six days. The camps were littered with dead and dying and on closer investigation it was discovered that the huts capable of housing about 30 people in many cases were holding as many as 500, it was impossible to estimate the number of the dead among them, the others were too weak to remove the bodies so they just had to remain. In many cases they had died by suffocation, being too weak to move. Despite all this horror S.S. guards still remained in command of the camp, including the Commandant and now the S.S. men.
The super-men as they call themselves are being made to cart and bury in their thousands, the unfortunate civilians who had been slowly tortured to death. In most cases their only crime being that they were born Jews.
Picture shows: S.S. men captured at the camp are forced at bayonet point to remove the dead bodies of their victims to lorries for burial.
Место изготовленияBergen-Belsen concentration camp
Дата circa 1945-04
Наименованиеphotographs
Материалpaper
Размерность
- width: 152.00 mm
height: 99.00 mm
Язык
- English
Кредитная линияSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Mr Timothy Ring