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The colour of darkness: Never before seen photographs show the liberation of Dachau, the first of the Nazis' concentration camps
By Sam Webb and Daniel Miller
PUBLISHED: 03:04 EST, 26 March 2013 | UPDATED: 09:40 EST, 26 March 2013
Confused, exhausted and vulnerable, they may have somehow survived and are about to be free, but these chilling colour photographs show that for victims of the Nazis' concentration camps there seemed little to celebrate as the Allies arrived.
The never before seen images show the liberation of Dachau, the first of the thousands of concentration camps that sprang up across Germany after the Nazis swept into power.
Established in March 1933, just two months after Hitler became Chancellor, Dachau was built to house political prisoners and by the end of the year around 4,800 mainly communists, social democrats and union officials, had been incarcerated there.
Over the years that followed, the number of inmates was swelled as other 'undesirables', such as homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, gypsies, criminals and of course Jews were sent there.
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Persecuted: These colour photos show the liberation of Dachau. The first of the thousands of concentration camps that sprang up across Germany after the Nazis rose to power
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Very disheartening comments at the site.
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Thanks for posting this. I've visited Dachau twice, and Flossenburg once. If I could, I'd visit a dozen more concentration camps. I don't want to forget, not for a moment.