Precious metals, paintings, and other loot hidden by Germans in a salt mine near Merkers, Germany, 15 Apr 1945US Army Corporal Donald Ornitz examining a looted painting in the Merkers salt mine, Germany, Apr 1945Supervised by American soldiers, German civilians from the town of Nordhausen, Germany bury the corpses of prisoners found at the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp in mass graves, mid-Apr 1945Damaged buildings of Kolberg, Germany (now Kolobrzeg, Poland), mid-1945