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German citizens carrying a coffin

72-3310
Accession Number
72-3310
6.5x4.5 inches
Black & White
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NAID 348448363
Keywords
Concentration camps
Holocaust victims
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
World War, 1939-1945
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U.S. Army Signal Corps

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Description
On orders of the XII corps Military Government officials, German citizens of the town of Neunburg, Germany, dug up the bodies of the murdered Polish and Russian Jews from where the S. S. troopers buried them and gave them a decent burial in the town cemetery. Here citizens carry one of the dead. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."
Date(s)
April 1945