1945: THE WAR ENDS: German people confront the horrific reality

SS officer Eichelsdoerfer, the commandant of the Kaufering IV concentration camp, stands among the corpses of prisoners killed in his camp.

A German girl is overcome as she walks past the exhumed bodies of some of the 800 slave workers murdered by the SS guards near Namering, Germany, and laid here so that townspeople may view the work of their Nazi leaders.

DEATH TRAIN: American soldiers of the U.S. 7th Army force boys, believed to be Hitler youth, to examine boxcars containing bodies of prisoners starved to death by the SS.

German civilians under U.S. military escort are forced to see a wagon loaded with corpses in Buchenwald.

Under orders from the U.S. Army, Austrian civilians dig mass graves for corpses found in Gusen.

On orders from the U.S. Army, Austrian citizens remove corpses from the "Russian camp" section of Mauthausen for burial in a mass grave.

German civilians from the town of Nordhausen bury the corpses of prisoners found in the Nordhausen concentration camp in mass graves.

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