Eric Schwab, photographing the unspeakable – Correspondent

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Correspondent

via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/schwab-holocaust#.VN4D5kL_un0

One of the first photographers to work for the modern-day AFP, founded in 1944 as France was freed from Nazi occupation, Eric Schwab was among the very first witnesses to the boundless horror that Allied forces uncovered as they advanced into Germany, liberating the death camps one after the other.