# @gettyimages on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/B_AE6s2j98W
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16446333-gettyimages-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2020-04-15T12:17:17.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Getty Images (@GettyImages) — https://gondola.cc/GettyImages

## Caption

Former prisoners of Bergen-Belsen suffering from typhus and starvation, photographed after the liberation of the concentration camp on 15 April 1945.⁠
The site of thousands of deaths between 1940 - 1945, it was reported that Canadian and British soldiers discovered 60,000 prisoners upon entering the camp. 13,000 corpses had been left in the open.⁠
Images from inside Bergen-Belsen revealed what unimaginable horror had taken place. Serving as testimony and memorial, they are amongst the most important photographs of the twentieth century.⁠
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📷: George Rodger/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images | life | April 1945 | #GettyImages25 #PreservingThePast #GettyArchive | gettyarchive⁠
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