The Photographer Who Documented Liberation

American photographer Robert Capa is famous for his D-Day photos — but fewer people know about his lesser-known colleague, American photographer Walter Rosenblum, who documented the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp. Rosenblum, a Jewish immigrant from Austria, had a personal stake in what he was documenting. When he entered the camp and saw the piles of corpses and the emaciated survivors, he wept. His photographs of the Holocaust liberation are among the most powerful documentary images ever taken, but they were less published than Capa's work because the U.S. government wanted to minimize attention to the Holocaust's full scope, even after liberation.