SS guards carrying bodies at Belsen

Three former SS guards dragging corpses at the concentration camp in Belsen, Germany at the end of the war. Following is a piece taken from the transcript of a taped conversation between the artist Alan Moore and Anne Gray. Gray: 'perhaps you'd like to talk about No. 98, which is one of the Belsen drawings. You actually asked to go there, didn't you?' Moore: 'No. I was attached to the 82nd Armoured Division and we advanced up to Minden which was a town not very far from Belsen. They told us there was a prisoner of war camp there and I was detailed to go into all prisoner of war camps there and find Australian POWs. I was detailed with fifty men - a major and fifty men - and we went out and we found Belsen. It was a political prisoners' camp. Most of them were women and children. But there were thirty odd thousand dead and 65,000 living among them. I stayed out there for five days drawing and trying to get somewhere. We had to go in and then leave every few hours and be dusted down and everything like that. I was drawing madly. It was one of these pits where we got the SS to get bodies out and bury them quickly, otherwise plague would set in. One of the troops said, 'You're mad doing that, people will think that you've just made it up'. He said, 'Why don't you take a roll of snaps'. I took a roll of 35 mm photographs which I've still got. They show everything that was there.'