This photo from the exhibition at the Museumat the Memorial Site of the former Dachau Concentration Camp showsAmerican soldiers viewing the bodies of victims, who died whilebeing transfered in an open boxcar, on a freight train with 50cars, from other concentration camps in Poland to Dachau duringthe final days of World War II. The abandoned train, with itsgrisly cargo, was discovered on a railroad siding near the entranceto the camp, just before the soldiers arrived at the Dachau camp,and found an even more horrible scene with dead bodies piled upinside the camp. According to survivor Nerin E. Gun, there were2,310 corpses found on the train and on the ground nearby, including21 children and 83 women. He wrote that these victims were Hungarianand Polish Jews from concentration camps in the east, who hadbeen on a journey of 30 to 40 days to the Dachau camp. Many moreprisoners died after the liberation of the Dachau camp becausethey were unaccustomed to eating the amount and type of food givento them by the Americans, or because they were too weak to recuperatefrom typhus, even with medical treatment provided by the AmericanArmy doctors, who were seeing typhus for the first time in theircareers, according to Marcus J. Smith in his book "The Harrowingof Hell".