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Full horror of the Holocaust revealed in heartbreaking colourised photos of starving death camp victims

Heartbreaking tragedy is laid bare in this set of photographs that capture the Nazi extermination machine that was let loose during World War Two

THESE colourised images shed new light on the true horror of the holocaust.

A teenage photographer has undertaken the painstaking task of colourising the haunting black and white images to reveal a new, harrowing, picture of the genocide that took place during World War Two.

 Inmates of the Ampfing subcamps in Germany after they were liberated by US Third Army troops, Germany, May 4, 1945
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Inmates of the Ampfing subcamps in Germany after they were liberated by US Third Army troops, Germany, May 4, 1945Credit: Media Drum World
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Starving inmates of one of the subcamps in Germany can be seen in appalling detail with their bones clearly visible as the prisoners are forced to wear nothing by rags.

Piles of discarded wedding rings from those killed in the Nazi slaughter are also included in the chilling images.

In one of the moving images, American Senator Alebn W Barkley examines those been held in the Buchenwald concentration camp as he investigates the atrocities carried out by the Nazis.

Others show Jews as they are executed by German army mobile death squads, the Einsatzgruppen, while starving children beg for food and alms in a Warsaw ghetto.

 Executions of Jews by German army mobile killing units, the Einsatzgruppen, after they had dug their own graves, near Ivangorod, Ukraine, 1942
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Executions of Jews by German army mobile killing units, the Einsatzgruppen, after they had dug their own graves, near Ivangorod, Ukraine, 1942Credit: Media Drum World
 A few of the thousands of wedding rings the Nazis removed from their victims to salvage the gold, in a cave near the Buchenwald concentration camp
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A few of the thousands of wedding rings the Nazis removed from their victims to salvage the gold, in a cave near the Buchenwald concentration campCredit: Media Drum World
 Starving children asking for alms in the Warsaw ghetto, Poland, taken by German soldiers Heinz Joest during a leave in occasion of his birthday on September 19, 1941
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Starving children asking for alms in the Warsaw ghetto, Poland, taken by German soldiers Heinz Joest during a leave in occasion of his birthday on September 19, 1941Credit: Media Drum World
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Other horrifying images show prisoner no.40472 of the Auschwitz concentration camp, who has been as identified as Michal Loborski, as members of the 42nd Rainbow Division, 7th US Army uncover a wagon transporting some of the horrors of Dachau.

The original black and white photographs were colourised by Joel Bellviure, aged just 17, who lives between Palma, Mallorca and Barcelona, Spain.

He said: “A colourised Holocaust picture can raise awareness that, although being 70 years old, the essence of evil will never evolve, that death doesn't need to be romanticised because of being in black and white.”

 Prisioner no. 40472 of the Auschwitz concentration-extermination camp, identified as Michal Liborski
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Prisioner no. 40472 of the Auschwitz concentration-extermination camp, identified as Michal LiborskiCredit: Media Drum World
 Senator Alben W. Barkley, member of a committee investigating Nazi atrocities takes a look to a pile of bodies at Buchenwald concentration camp
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Senator Alben W. Barkley, member of a committee investigating Nazi atrocities takes a look to a pile of bodies at Buchenwald concentration campCredit: Media Drum World
 Home truths... American soldiers force German civilians from the town of Volary to walk past a group exhumed bodies of 30 Jewish women starved to death by SS troops
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Home truths... American soldiers force German civilians from the town of Volary to walk past a group exhumed bodies of 30 Jewish women starved to death by SS troopsCredit: Media Drum World
 Bearing witness... Members of the 42nd Rainbow Division, 7th US Army uncover a wagon transporting some of the horrors of Dachau
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Bearing witness... Members of the 42nd Rainbow Division, 7th US Army uncover a wagon transporting some of the horrors of DachauCredit: Media Drum World

The Holocaust was a genocide during World War Two in which Nazi Germany, aided by its collaborators, systematically murdered about six million European Jews.

This was around two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe, between 1941 and 1945.


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