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Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson 

In June 1945, Henri Cartier Bresson went with the American army to photograph the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps. He was commissioned to make a movie on prisoners and deportees recently released by the Allied armies called: Le Retour. Henri Cartier Bresson had been imprisoned himself and managed to escape with a few other detained. These now historic pictures largely helped to reveal the Nazi crimes and allowed to prepare for Germany’s denazification. 

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