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The photographer at Auschwitz: Man forced to take these chilling images of Jewish prisoners was haunted until his death at 94. Photographer Wilhelm Brasse died this week aged 94He had taken up to 50,000 photos in Auschwitz for the NazisMr Brasse hid negatives which were used to convict the very Nazis who commissioned them By Alex Ward Published: 16:20 GMT, 27 October 2012 | Updated: 07:57 GMT, 29 October 2012 These chilling images of a young Jewish girl at Auschwitz are among thousands that have haunted a Nazi photographer all his life. Wilhelm Brasse was forced to take photographs of frightened children and victims of gruesome medical experiments moments from their death at the extermination camp where some 1.5million people, mostly Jewish died in the Holocaust. Mr Brasse, who died this week aged 94, has had relive those horrors from inside Auschwitz but is considered a hero after he risked his life to preserve the harrowing photographs, which later helped convict the very Nazi monsters who commissioned the photographs.
Scroll down for video He said: ‘When I started taking pictures again, I saw the dead.