For decades, the items sat hidden by shadows and foliage. Then a recent hike through a forest outside the former Stutthof Nazi concentration camp in Poland revealed the disturbing sight: previously unknown artifacts, including hundreds of pairs of shoes, belts, and strips of prisoner uniforms, up to a foot deep, spread across hundreds of square yards. “There are items that may have belonged to concentration camp prisoners,” Danuta Drywa, Stutthof Museum’s head of archives, tells the Telegraph. “I’ve been working here 30 years and none of the employees have ever heard of these items lying in the forest near the museum.” About 85,000 of the camp’s 110,000 prisoners died at Stutthof, where Nazis tested making soap from their victims’ fat.

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