Gruesome Pictures

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVII, Issue 23181, 20 April 1945, Page 5

Gruesome Pictures

Prison Atrocities Confirmed (Rec. 7.30 p.m.) LONDON, April 19. The morning newspapers publish some of the war’s most gruesome pictures taken in German concentration" and slave labour camps which the Allies in the West liberated. They confirm the written descriptions of the Germans’ appalling brutality. General Eisenhower is shown talking with a released slave labour man at the camp at Ohrdruf, near Gotha. General Eisenhower Is wearing the grimmest expression ever shown in a published picture. Another picture of Ohrdruf shows naked bodies stacked in layers in a shed and sprinkled with lime. Some had been beaten to death. A terrible picture shows rows of unburied dead political prisoners at Nordhausen where the Americans found more than 2000 unburied. In the background there is a row of bearers carrying more. The bodies shown tell a story of prolonged starvation and cruelty in their unbelievedly emaciated bodies. Another picture shows a group of Weimar citizens whom the Americans made inspect the Buchenwald concentration camp gazing at a lorryload of naked corpses all terribly emaciated Another picture shows Weimar citizens standing before furnaces still containing the skeletons of cremated victims. Other pictures show well-fed citizens of Weimar walking through the barracks in which the horribly emaciated inmates were too weak to stand or even sit up. The "Daily Telegraph” says that some of the official pictures received are too horrible to print.