The Gardelegen Atrocity

13th April 1945: A mixture of German troops murder of over 1000 concentration camp prisoners - by burning them alive

The day after the massacre, US troops arrived to discover the scene of horror in the barn.

During the last months of the war hundreds of thousands of concentration camp prisoners were on 'death marches' to the west. The Nazis were evacuating them from the camps in the east which would soon be overrun by the Red Army. There are numerous accounts of how th…