Photos That Captured the Most Chilling Moments in History

April 13, 1945

The inside of a warehouse where concentration camp prisoners were massacred in Gardelegen, Germany. The Gardelegen massacre was perpetrated by the local German population with minor direction from the S.S. Over 1,000 slave laborers who had been evacuated from Mittelbau-Dora and Hannover-Stöcken concentration camps were put in a large barn, which was then set on fire.

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