Five harsh to view photographs of haggard prisoners, and bodies of the dead who perished in the death camps. Germany, 1945.
Three photographs from the Bergen-Belsen camp, one shows prisoners who arrived in Bergen-Belsen from Stalag II B – The many months they were kept in conditions of extreme starvation can be seen on their horrifyingly thin bodies. In two others are seen: bodies of children in Bergen-Belsen, as well as the body of a prisoner who perished.
Two photographs from Dachau and Mauthausen: Allied soldiers bury the body of a prisoner who died in Dachau, a prisoner found shot in the head in the Mauthausen camp – taken by the SS in the summer of 1943, and printed as a postcard at the end of the war.
The photographs are handwritten on the back. One photograph Size: 13×18 cm (the photograph of the bodies of the children in Bergen-Belsen), 9×14 cm, and 12×9 cm. Overall very good condition.