Kate Middleton and Prince William visit Gdansk during tour

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge today walked
through the infamous 'death gates' of a Nazi concentration camp.

Kate and William visited the former Stutthof camp in northern Poland where 65,000 people died during Germany's occupation in the Second World War.

Surrounded by a wire fence and watchtowers, the royal couple passed stark wooden barrack blocks where inmates were housed.

Stutthof, about 20 miles from Gdansk, is now run as a museum and the Duke and Duchess met senior staff from the institution before being taken to a barracks and shown discarded shoes from Holocaust victims.

When the couple walked on to the main complex, before them were the remains of the camp with some huts left intact showing the cramped living conditions.

The atmospheric wooden buildings featured pictures of inmates and some of their personal possessions, from combs and children's dolls to portraits drawn by incarcerated artists.

They were shown discarded shoes and clothing seized from prisoners on arrival at the camp and saw the gas chamber used to murder those who were too sick to work.

The couple also met two British survivors of Stuttoff, Zigi Shipper and Manfred Goldberg, who were both making their first return to the camp since moving to Britain after the war.