mit dem Leid von Toten

13:34 Jun 28, 2017 

Brilliant suggestions, thank you so much everyone for your input, it's been really helpful. For the context, the idea that the dead bodies outside represent the suffering that went on inside the barracks housing the sick would seem to me to fit best.

13:23 Jun 28, 2017 

bring the PROCESS of death into focus. There is no chance of healing in these barracks, only the suffering of death. Here's another suggestion:
Our area was littered with barracks housing the sick, with those suffering/having suffered the agony of death on display.

13:22 Jun 28, 2017 

the key to the phrase is 'Leid' and in the context I'd translate it as "horror".

13:19 Jun 28, 2017 

I find it a strange sentence because there is, as can be imagined, a lot of discussion of the dead everywhere, but this is the only one where he hints at suffering and misery to do with them. They are elsewhere almost dealt with as observations of what he can see around him.

13:18 Jun 28, 2017 

in front? This seems the most logical, with the sentence following.
--with the agony of the dead on display

13:17 Jun 28, 2017 

Thank you Ramey, and yes, although I have now read the text many times, it doesn't fail to move me every time I read it. The agony of the dead is a good phrase

13:16 Jun 28, 2017 

Laura, it sound like it is a literal description.
The misery of the dead in front of the barracks probably describes the dead which were brought out and piled in front of the barracks until they were transported away with the meat hooks mentioned in the next sentence.
I am glad that I am not doing that translation.

13:11 Jun 28, 2017 

I'd need a punching bag AND a box of tissues. Okay, let's see...
Our area had many ... with the suffering dead piled in front of them.
"the suffering dead" is not necessarily logical, but the agony of the observer comes across.

13:05 Jun 28, 2017 

Bei Tageslicht sahen wir dann das Lager. Es enthielt viele Abteilungen; für Männer und Frauen, anscheinend verschiedener Kategorien; gegen einander durch Stacheldrahtzäune abgesperrt. In unserem, eigenen Bereich lagen viele Kfankenbaracken mit dem Leid von Toten davor. Den ganzen Tag hindurch wurden die an Haken zum Block 11 geschleppt, der abgesehen von einem sogenannten Waschraum, wie ein Warenmagazin mit Toten gefüllt war.

12:42 Jun 28, 2017 

No, it's not a nice sentence. Can you give us the preceding and following sentences as well, please?