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The Illustrated London News 1945.

April 28th

WARNING - There are some shocking images of Nazi SS brutality in the concentration camps

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The usually genial General Eisenhower shows by his grim aspect his horror of German brutality:

The macabre scene of vistims murdered by S.S. guards at Ohrdruf Camp

 

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German atrocities in prison camps: Ghastly scenes at Nordhausen

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Like a Doré drawing of Dante's inferno:

Scenes in Belsen the camp with thousands dead or dying of starvation, torture and disease.

 

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Buchenwald and Langenstein: Recorded horrs of two torture camps

 

 

 

May 5th

 

At The RA Exhibition 1945: HM The King, A Portrait For The Royal Naval College, Greenwich '

The ILN 100 Years Ago: The Opening of the Hungerford Suspension Bridge ' Captain Taylers Breakwater off Brighton '

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The Charnel Pits of Belsen - Bodies Being Removed For Christian Burial -


'SS Men and Women of the Camp Garison
Are Forced By the British to Convey The Bodies of Their Victims to Prepared Graves:
Their Living Captives Are Meanwhile Reviling their Late Oppressors '

Drawn by Our War Artist Captain De Grineau On A Special visit to Belsen Internment Camp

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' As Dore Might Have Conceived It:
Belsen Death Camp, Where Prisoners Were Scientifically Exterminated.
The Pathetic Plight of Those Yet Living Amid The Dead:
A Scene in a Womans Section of Belsen Camp Where Suffering Surviviors Became Oblivious to Their Ghastly Surroundings

Drawn by Our War Artist Captain De Grineau On A Special visit to Belsen Internment Camp.


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