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Bodies of dead inmates fill yard

72-3231
Accession Number
72-3231
6.5x4.5 inches
Black & White
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NAID 348448201
Keywords
Concentration camps
Holocaust victims
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
World War, 1939-1945
HST Keywords
Germany - Cities and Towns - Nordhausen
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Credit:
U.S. Army Signal Corps

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Description
Rows of bodies of dead inmates fill yard of Lager Nordhausen, a Gestapo Concentration Camp near Nordhausen, Germany. The photograph, according to the cameraman, shows less than half of the bodies of the several hundred inmates who died of starvation or were shot by Gestapo men at the camp. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."
Date(s)
April 1945