Holocaust Evidence

CAUTION:  THESE LINKS ARE TO GRUESOME PICTURES TAKEN AT NAZI DEATH CAMPS

One of numerous troubling issues surrounding the Holocaust is: How could people - including those who professed to be Christians - have been so cruel to other human beings? Some said, "We were just following orders." Others, like those tried at Nuremberg, never bothered to explain.

• SS troops mercilessly burned alive about 150 prisoners on April 16, 1945 in Gardelegen, Germany.



• Of 1100 prisoners at Gardelegen, only 12 managed to escape as SS troops shot people and set buildings on fire. (April 16, 1945.)



• Starving people, transported in fifty freight cars to Dachau from another camp, died en route.



• Death camp prisoners were forced to strip before they were killed. A pile of clothing at Dachau is all that remains of some Nazi victims.



• At Buchenwald, a concentration camp near Weimar, Germany, SS troops celebrated Christmas even as they killed and tortured human beings.



• When General Patton's 3rd U.S. Army liberated Buchenwald, his troops found human bones in the crematoria. (April 14, 1945.)



• They also found a truck load of prisoner bodies, about to be burned.



• At Buchenwald, prisoners were burned in ovens, dead or alive.

Some of the concentration camps were located near German towns and villages. Did people who lived nearby know what their government was doing to innocent civilians? Conquering armies made sure they found out.