Since Florida wants to pretend history didn’t happen, here is a random image I came across and its history.

Hungarian SS guards, exhausted from their forced labour clearing the bodies of the dead at Bergen-Belsen, are allowed a brief rest by British soldiers but are forced to take it by lying face down in one of the empty mass graves, 1945. 

The British were horrified by what they found at Bergen-Belsen and forced the Hungarian SS to bury the dead without using protective gloves. Most of them contracted typhus (which is spread by lice) and died.

This is a famous quote from BBC journalist Richard Dimbleby, who was present at the liberation of this very camp.

“Here over an acre of ground lay dead and dying people. You could not see which was which… 

The living lay with their heads against the corpses and around them moved the awful, ghostly procession of emaciated, aimless people, with nothing to do and with no hope of life, unable to move out of your way, unable to look at the terrible sights around them … Babies had been born here, tiny wizened things that could not live … 

A mother, driven mad, screamed at a British sentry to give her milk for her child, and thrust the tiny mite into his arms, then ran off, crying terribly. He opened the bundle and found the baby had been dead for days.

This day at Belsen was the most horrible of my life”