Rodger later recalled how, after spending several hours at the camp, he was appalled to realise that he had spent most of the time looking for graphically pleasing compositions of the piles of bodies lying among the trees and buildings.
Rodger je leta 1945 posnel serijo fotografij o koncentracijskem taborišču Bergen-Belsen, s čimer je postal prvi fotograf, ki je vstopil v to koncentracijsko taborišče.