How Allied photos revealed true horrors of the Nazi death camps

French prisoners at the Dachau concentration camp near Munich observe a minute's silence after its liberation in 1945. © Eric Schwab / AFP/File

Paris (AFP) – 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.

Many of the ghastly pictures were at first held back from the broader public, partly out of concern for those with missing relatives.