Images of what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi death camps towards the end of World War II brought the horror of the Holocaust to global attention.

HIDDEN love letters from Heinrich Himmler to his wife have shed new light ... In one typically banal reference to the biggest death camp run by the Nazis, he says: "I'm going to Auschwitz.

Images of what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi death camps towards the end of World War II brought the horror ...

In July 1942 Heinrich Himmler again visited Auschwitz ... Treblinka Villager Sixty miles northeast of Warsaw, the SS built a death factory called Treblinka. Unlike Auschwitz, its only purpose ...

Among the Nazi leaders, Heinrich Himmler was, as Richard Breitman observes in this ground ... the programme of formal mass murder responsible for the deaths of six million Jews in death camps. Thus, ...

Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler (right) tours the Monowitz-Buna ... only a few hundred survived the first five months. “Death, death, death. Death at night, death in the morning, death in ...

Death Marches' - In June 1944, SS leader Heinrich Himmler ordered some camps to be evacuated before they were reached by Allied troops, with prisoners to be transferred to other camps. SS officers ...

Death Marches' - In June 1944, SS leader Heinrich Himmler ordered some camps to be evacuated before they were reached by Allied troops, with prisoners to be transferred to other camps. SS officers ...

In June 1944, SS leader Heinrich Himmler ordered some camps to be evacuated ... mid-1944 and 60,000 emaciated prisoners forced onto "Death Marches" to other camps. When the Soviets arrived on ...