Later controversies
27 April 1945: On the day that Kaufering VI, part of Dachau, is liberated, the commandant Johann Baptist Eichelsdörfer is photographed among the corpses of prisoners killed there. He is later hanged for his crimes.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
When the extermination camps were liberated at the end of World War II, that wasn't the end of the story. The victims and survivors themselves generated controversy – how were they to be remembered and how were those memories to be put to use? And there were some who even denied that those millions of people had not died at all – or if they did, it was all some terrible mistake.
This section of The Holocaust website looks at both memory and denial.
- Battle for the Holocaust
The world's perception of the Nazi extermination - Holocaust on Trial
A libel case that put history in the dock.