| Lee Miller Buchenwald, Germany: Dead Prisoners 1945, 30 April Gelatin silver print Lee Miller Archive LL/33286 Images of concentration camp victims, made by Miller and reproduced in Life, provided conclusive evidence that Germany had engaged in the extermination of Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, and other so-called undesirables who they demonized as unalterably dangerous, evil, and unredeemable.
See Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996).
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