American troops of the US 7th Army force suspected members of the Hitler Youth to view the Dachau death train.
Overview
- Caption
- American troops of the US 7th Army force suspected members of the Hitler Youth to view the Dachau death train.
- Photographer
- Sidney Blau
- Date
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May 1945
- Locale
- Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
- Event History
- The Dachau death train consisted of nearly forty railcars containing the bodies of between 2,000 and 3,000 prisoners who were evacuated from Buchenwald on April 7, 1945. The train arrived in Dachau on the afternoon of April 28.
[Source: "Allemagne, avril-mai 1945: Photographies d'Eric Schwab." Centre historique des Archives nationales, Paris 2003, p. 52.]
https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005162.
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
Copyright: Public DomainSource Record ID: 111-SC-264813 (Album 3212)United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Robert SteinkeSource Record ID: Collections: 2004.228Second Record ID: Collections: 2004.10United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Robert Steinke
Keywords & Subjects
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- 2018-04-30 00:00:00
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