New Nazi horror camp discovered

 "New Nazi horror camp discovered."

That is the original caption on this photo, which was taken by US Army photographers after Allied soldiers liberated Wöbbelin, a subcamp of the Neuengamme concentration camp, #OnThisDay in 1945.

At the time, Wöbbelin held thousands of inmates. Most, including George Salton, had been sent there from other camps in the last weeks of the war.

"I was liberated in spring of 1945. I was, by that time, a prisoner in various concentration camps for over three years, and it was the tenth camp," George remembered. "It was a camp that apparently the Germans didn't finish when we arrived there. The buildings were not finished, there were no floors in the few barracks, no windows."

By the time Allied troops arrived, they found sick, starving inmates who were barely surviving.

"I had basically deteriorated very badly physically. I couldn't, I couldn't walk very well ... ," George recalled. "I think if I wasn't liberated, in a matter of days, I would have been one of those bodies that was laying in mountains of dead in front of the toilets."