Lee Miller was a model who turned to photography. During World War II, she worked for UK Vogue as an embedded photographer with the US armed forces. She was one of the first photographers to capture the liberation of Dachau and Buchenwald. When she cabled her first images to her editors, she also sent “I IMPLORE YOU TO BELIEVE THIS IS TRUE!" Her images were inconceivable to those who had not been there.

1. Lee Miller and
American soldiers,
1941.Phography
David E. Scherman/
Life Picture
Collection

2. Lee Miller, Piano by
Broadwood, London,
England, 1940.

3. Lee Miller, Non-
Conformist
Chapel, London,
England, 1940.

4. Figure 4 An American soldier poses next to one of the open railcars of the
Lee Miller, An American soldier poses next to one of the open railcars of
the Dachau death train, 1945.

5. Lee Miller, US
soldiers examine a
rail truck loaded
with dead
prisoners, Dachau,
30 April 1945

6. Lee Miller, US
soldiers examine a
rail truck loaded
with dead prisoners,
Dachau, April 1945 .

7. Lee Miller, SS
Guard in Canal,
Dachau,
Germany, 1945.

8. Lee Miller,
Released prisoners
in striped prison
dress beside a
heap of bones
from bodies
burned in the
crematorium, KZ
Buchenwald, 1945,