This disturbing image captured by British photographer George Rodger on April 15th 1945

This disturbing image captured by British photographer George Rodger on April 15th 1945 following the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp by the British 11th Armoured Division depicts a young liberated Dutch Jew named Sieg Maandag as he makes his way down a street lined with the corpses of Holocaust victims

On the day of liberation, British troops discovered 60,000 prisoners inside, of whom the vast majority were half-starved and seriously ill. Among the estimated 13,000 unburied corpses found laying around inside the camp were that of the famed Dutch diarist Anne Frank and her sister Margot, although sadly their bodies were never identified and they likely ended up in a mass grave together.

An estimated 50,000 people in total lost their lives in the camp throughout its existence, and the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp itself was entirely burnt to the ground in May of 1945 by British flamethrowing Bren gun carriers and Churchill Crocodile tanks so as to prevent the spread of Belsen's typhus epidemic and louse infestation. Today, several memorials exist on the site of the former camp.

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