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Over its twelve years as a concentration camp, the Dachau administration recorded the intake of 206,206 prisoners and 31,951 deaths. This number varies according to the source but the totals are overwhelming regardless. Photographic evidence of the Holocaust, such as this, extinguished claims that reports of horrific Nazi Death Camps was Allied propaganda.

41137. Countless Dead Bodies in Dachau Concentration Camp

The town of Dachau dates back to the Middle Ages and at one time was home to many of Germany's artists.

41138. Dachau In Ruins Around Time of Liberation of Concentration Camp, Dachau, Germany

Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of all Allied Forces in the European Theater during World War II, is greeted by an unidentified officer. Eisenhower toured several Nazi Concentration Camps immediately after they were liberated in order to personally testify to the heinous Nazi war crimes.

41139. General Eisenhower and Allied Officer Shaking Hands

Information with the photograph, "A lone soldier of the 100th Infantry Division, Seventh U.S. Army, walks through the ruins of Heilbronn, Germany, cleared of the enemy April 12, 1945. Forty miles southeast of Mannheim and the Rhino, Heilbronn, an important road and rail center was blasted by Allied Planes. U.S. Signal Corps Photo."

41140. German Rail Center Blasted By Allied Air Attacks, Heilbronh, Germany

Building in back cente and right, is still burning as people carry what belongings they have left with them in the streets.

41141. German Citizens After U.S. Occupation of City, Germany

Information included with the photograph, "Troops of the Third U.S. Army crouch low as enemy fire opens during their crossings of the Rhine in assault boats at Oberwesel, Germany. The Army first forged the river March 22, 1945." Note the label "me" on the photograph most likely points to Raymond Young, infantryman and combat photographer.

41142. Third U.S. Army Troops Cross Rhine in Germany

Soldiers walk throughout the streets of Dachau. Buildings were demolished during bombings and the United States Army assaults, followed by the liberation of prisoners held in Dachau concentration camp.

41143. Destruction of Dachau By U.S. Troops, Dachau, Germany

Information included with the photograph,"Overall view showing the damage done by the RAF and the U.S. Eighth Air Force to the Deutsche Dunlop A.G. Tire and rubber factory at Hanau. The widespread destruction in this plant severely cut part of the German tire production for motor vehicles. This part of the plant ceased to produce after the last air attack that left it the mass of twisted girders and rubble shown." See the back of the original photograph for more information.

41144. Deutsche Dunlop A.G. Tire and Rubber Factory In Ruins, Hanau, Germany

Information included with the photograph,"Debris spilled from bombed buildings of Mainz fills a street of the ancient Rhine River city captured by troops of the 80th Division, Third u.S. Army, March 23, 1945. Mainz, birthplace of Johannes Gutemberg, credited with the development of printing in the 15th Century, was a strategic Nazi manufacturing center of machinery and chemicals."

41145. Rubble Filled Street, Mainz, Germany

U.S. soldiers move on from a destroyed transport vehicle on the road as one G.I. mans a mounted machine gun in the jeep.

41146. Armed U.S. Soldiers Move Up Hill in Combat Area

U.S. Army troops pushed through German resistance in the Spring of 1945. Many towns such as this were bombed from the air and assualted by ground forces.

41147. Cross Inside of Destroyed Building in Germany

Tanks and soldiers traveled past destroyed buildings as they push through Germany in the spring of 1945.

41148. U.S. Tanks and Soldiers Push Through Germany