![Close-up of corpses piled in the crematorium mortuary in the newly liberated Dachau concentration camp. [LCID: 16980]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/ea03f3de-2a07-465b-9073-155f58decc08.jpg)
Close-up of corpses piled in the crematorium mortuary in the newly liberated Dachau concentration camp. Dachau, Germany, May 1945.
This image is among the commonly reproduced and distributed, and often extremely graphic, images of liberation. These photographs provided powerful documentation of the crimes of the Nazi era.
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