The heartbreaking image was taken by German soldier Heinz Joest during a days leave for his birthday on 19 September 1941. All this time, the Holocaust has been abused both by academic history, as well as cinema and popular culture. Starting in 1933, the Nazis built a network of concentration camps in Germany for political opponents and people deemed 'undesirable'. Pictured are a few of the thousands of wedding rings the Nazis removed from their victims to salvage the gold, in a cave near the Buchenwald concentration camp, Germany. 'The images are hard, but they must be seen to understand what happened in those years so close to us.

Source: Daily Mail September 08, 2018 12:30 UTC