Abstract
Flicking through the weekly issue of Life magazine on 7 May 1945 — which appeared on the same day that Colonel-General Alfred Jodl, representing the ruined Third Reich, signed the initial military surrender that signalled the end of the Second World War in Europe — readers saw a photo spread many would never forget. Amid reports about baseball and ballet, and advertisements for underwear and perfume, there appeared a dozen explicit photos from recently liberated concentration camps: emaciated survivors in Buchenwald, mountains of decaying bodies in Bergen-Belsen, charred corpses in Gardelegen.1
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