Photo Credit: Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum
These two staring, emaciated men are liberated inmates of Lager-Nordhausen, a Gestapo concentration camp near Nordhausen, Germany on April 12, 1945.
The camp, according to G-2, 104th Infantry Division, U.S. First Army, had from 3,000 to 4,000 inmates, including French, Polish, Belgian, a few Russian, and several German political prisoners. Several hundred inmates died of starvation or were shot by Gestapo men, and all of the prisoners were maltreated, beaten and starved.
Lager-Nordhausen (also known as Mittelbau-Dora) was established in late summer 1943 as a subcamp of Buchenwald concentration camp, supplying slave labor from many countries occupied by Germany.