This photo is not from Gardelegen but from Buchenwald. I am using only as an example of a body burned alive. Being a Red Cross First Air I can say that this particularly one had not been Lucky because he didn’t burn into flames but aside the flames which take as twice more time and could be equivalent as being boiled into water. The discovery of the massacre in Gardelegen, Germany seems to be by chance. Consensus is that American Lt Emerson Hunt, a liaison officer between Ozark HQ and the 701st Tank Battalion, was captured by German forces on April 14, 1945. Lt Hunt bluffed the German forces defending the town of Gardelegen into believing that American tanks were approaching the city, leading the German commander to surrender to American forces. The Americans arrived at the site before the Germans had time to bury all of the bodies.