A German girl is overcome as she is forced to walk through and around the exhumed bodies of some 800 slave workers that the SS guards near Namering, Germany murdered. The US Army who liberated the camp laid them out so that the townspeople, who feverishly denied knowledge of the camp, could view the work of their Nazi leaders.

December 04, 2010, 9:21pm / 67

Before the Second World War, there were around 206,000 or so Jews living in Austria. As soon as the country was occupied by Hitler’s Nazi government, many who had converted to Judaism because of marriage were forced to renounce their faith and be classified as non-Jews. 24,000 of those who had been forced to renounce Judaism found themselves still viewed to possess Jewish ancestry by the Nazis and were reclassified as Jews.

At the end of the war, only around 5,500 of those 206,000 survived the Nazi occupation.

November 28, 2010, 5:34pm / 14