Hitler's photographer returned to concentration camp
Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2014 12:04 pm
How Hitler's photographer returned to Dachau concentration camp to take series of chilling images five years after those who survived torture and death at the hands of the Nazis were set free
PUBLISHED: 03:06, 22 March 2014 | UPDATED: 04:30, 22 March 2014
Even though they were taken in color, the images of Dachau concentration camp, where tens of thousands were imprisoned and killed by the Nazis, appear bleak and foreboding.
What is even more chilling than the sight of drainage ditches to catch the blood of victims, or the images of gas chambers, is that the man behind the camera in 1950 was Hugo Jaeger - one of Hitler's personal photographers.
The events that unfolded in Dachau continue to haunt the world 81 years after it first opened its gates on March 22, 1933. But the series of images taken by Jaeger, who documented the rise of Nazi Germany, add a layer of horror to the pride Hitler and his followers took in their movement.
A picture taken by American troops in April 1945 shows emaciated men who were kept at Dachau
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Everyone mentions the murder and ill treatment meted out on the jews and captured Americans - few if any mention the many thousands of Russians who suffered the same fate
"An emaciated 18-year-old Russian girl looks into the camera during the liberation of Dachau concentration camp in 1945.
