The pictures were all taken in the parts of the complex that we had just toured. It was only then that the reality of what had happened there hit me. I understood why the old couple in the group had been silently crying most of the way. I understood why the Nazis were so terrible and why Americans had to come over the ocean to help stop them. I realized all these things because of the photographs that were taken by Nazi soldiers half a decade ago.
Pictures can more easily convey emotion than words.
That is why journalists should be careful to use only pictures that tell the story accurately. The photos that I saw that day in Dachau are probably looked at as obscene by the breakfast table test, but they told a story better than years of talking ever could have.