A living skeleton seen delousing his clothes in concentration camp at Belsen, Germany, April 21, 1945.
During the advance of the 2nd Army, the huge concentration camp at Belsen, was liberated. Some 60,000 civilians, most suffering from typhus, typhoid and dysentery, were dying by the hundreds daily despite the frantic efforts made by medical services rushed to the camp.
"The troops were confronted by the most indescribable scenes, 60,000 people starving and without water for over six days. The dead and dying lay everywhere and on closer investigation it was discovered that huts made to house about 30 people in many cases were holding as many as 500. The S. S. men are being made to cart and bury, by their thousands, their unfortunate victims many of whose only crime was that they were born Jews."