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Bodies of Victims of a Mass Burning

72-3217 (untitled)
Accession Number
72-3217
6.5x4.5 inches
Black & White
Printer-Friendly Version
NAID 348448173
Keywords
Concentration camps
Holocaust victims
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
World War, 1939-1945
HST Keywords
Germany - Cities and Towns - Leipzig
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Credit:
U.S. Army Signal Corps

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Description
Two surviving prisoners walk among bodies of victims of mass burning of slave laborers at a Nazi camp near Leipzig on April 19, 1945, the day before the city was captured by the 69th Div. of the U.S. First Army. The victims were herded into a building and a time bomb was exploded. Men who broke doors down to escape were machine gunned by Nazi S.S. troops. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."
Date(s)
April 1945