Garand Picture of the day #116 Dachau Concentration Camp

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Auschwitz - Here is a recently discovered picture (left) of the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. The smoke on the left-hand side of the picture is being produced by the mass burning of bodies in funeral pits. During the war's closing stages the camp's crematoriums were unable to burn all the people murdered by the Nazis.

Roll call - This is another picture of Auschwitz (right). Prisoners lining up for roll call can be seen in the photograph's center.

On missions to Germany, my father in-law's B-24 flew over some of the concentration camps and wanted desperately to bomb the camps so that the prisoners could have a chance to escape and survive. But, alas the AAF prohibited it.