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Bodies near Ohligs, Germany

72-3269
Accession Number
72-3269
6.5x4.5 inches
Black & White
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NAID 348448277
Keywords
Holocaust victims
World War, 1939-1945
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Credit:
U.S. Army Signal Corps

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Description
Bodies of political prisoners shot by Nazis and buried in a mass grave near Ohligs, Germany. Under the supervision of the Graves Registration Unit of the 94th Division, the citizens of Ohligs exhumed the bodies and buried each individually in coffins. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."
Date(s)
April 1945