French Red Cross workers try to identify the bodies of French forces murdered outside the Chateau St. Vincennes.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 78903

Overview

Caption: French Red Cross workers try to identify the bodies of French forces murdered outside the Chateau St. Vincennes.

Original caption reads: "French Red Cross workers seek identification papers on the bodies of members of the French Forces of the Interior who were murdered after being held captive in the Chateau St. Vincennes, famous old fort in Paris. Panicked by the advance of the U.S. forces, the Germans dug pits, brought their French prisoners out in batches of 15 and machine-gunned them. After the liberation of Paris, the bodies were disinterred for identification and respectable burial".
Date: Circa August 1944
Locale: Paris, [Seine] France
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Ron Leidelmeyer

Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Ron Leidelmeyer

Source Record ID: Collections: 2013.466

Keyword: CORPSES EXHUMATION/REBURIAL FRENCH INSPECTIONS RED CROSS
Photo Designation: LIBERATION -- France -- Atrocities: Burial/Exhumation -- Other