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Stalag Tekla Massacre victim

A political prisoner ran into this barbed wire, was shot through the head, and his clothing burned from his body during his attempt to flee the S.S. Troops at Stalag Tekla near Leipzig, Germany. The camp prisoners were placed in a building that was then set on fire by S. S. troops. Anyone attempting to escape the building was shot. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."

Russian prisoner of war

Liberated Russian prisoner showing where S. S. troops beat him about the legs with lead filled leather whip. This is one of a series of pictures taken at a German concentration camp in Wobbelin, Germany, after its capture by troops of the 82nd Airborne Division, 9th US Army. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities.

Bodies of dead inmates fill yard

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."