Soldiers Taking a Body From Water at Concentration Camp

(Original Caption) The U.S. Seventh Army Divisions, capturing Dachau Concentration camp in Germany on April 30, 1945, found horrors worse than those found in the Nazi camps of Buchenwald and Belsen. More than 32,000 prisoners were liberated, among them some Englishmen, Canadians, and Americans. Prisoners with access to records said 9,000 people died of hunger, disease or shooting with in the past three months at Dachau. Four thousand more perished during the cold winter months. Two soldiers of the Rainbow Division are assisted by a Liberation Political prisoner as they pull the body of a dead Nazi SS guard from the moat surrounding the camp. Other Liberated prisoners in the background watch from behind the former electrified fence. Some SS guards were killed and thrown into the moat by the liberated prisoners, others by American soldiers during the battle to liberate the camp (Photo by George Rinhart/Corbis via Getty Images)