I am not a great believer in posting graphic images, but when it comes to the Holocaust there really is not always a way around it.
The picture above was taken in Ohrdruf shortly after it was liberated, it is actually one of the least graphic pictures.
The Ohrdruf camp was a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp, and the first Nazi camp liberated by US troops.
The camp was liberated on April 4, 1945, by the 4th Armored Division, led by Brigadier General Joseph F. H. Cutrona, and the 89th Infantry Division. It was the first Nazi concentration camp liberated by the U.S. Army. There is a scene in ‘the Band of Brothers’ where they liberate a camp, the name isn’t mentioned but I believe it to be Ohrdruf.
One of the 4th Armored Division soldiers, David Cohen, said: “We walked into a shed and the bodies were piled…
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