Overview
- Description
- Consists of one photograph taken of six soldiers in the garden of the Chancellery building in Berlin. The soldiers are standing near a ditch purported to be the ditch in which Hitler's remains had been buried after his body was burned.
- Date
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1945
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Genre/Form
- Photographs.
- Extent
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1 folder
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Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Solomon Bogard donated this photograph to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on May 12, 2006.
- Record last modified:
- 2024-07-09 11:56:02
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