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EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content / A soldiers looks at prisoner's dead bodies stacked in a train near Dachau concentration camp in late April or early May 1945, after the camp was liberated by the US army on April 29, 1945. The Dachau concentration camp was the first concentration camp set up by the Nazi regime in Germany in 1933, first intended for the internment of political opponents, mainly Communists, then Jews from Bavaria, Soviet prisoners of war, homosexuals and Gypsies. More than 200,000 people were detained between 1933 and 1945, and 31,591 deaths were declared excluding the victims of the evacuation march in April 1945. The US troops of General Patton entered Dachau on the 29th of April 1945. (Photo by Eric Schwab / AFP) (Photo by ERIC SCHWAB/AFP via Getty Images)