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Three survivors pose outside a barracks in the Dachau concentration camp immediately after the liberation.

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    Three survivors pose outside a barracks in the Dachau concentration camp immediately after the liberation.
    Three survivors pose outside a barracks in the Dachau concentration camp immediately after the liberation. The original Signal Corps caption reads, "DACHAU CONCENTRATION CAMP. Horrors worse than those found in the German concentration camps of Buchenwald and Belsen were discovered in the stinking hell-hole of Dachau, captured by troops of the 42nd and 45th Infantry Divivions of the Seventh U.S. Army April 30, 1945. More than 32,000 prisoners were liberated, among those some Englishmen, Canadians and Americans. The camp was formally surrendered by an SS lieutenant carrying a white flag, accompanied by a Swiss Red Cross official, but SS troops opened fire as American troops approached the main entrance. The Germans were shot down. Three prisoners were electrocuted when they tried to burst through the electrified wire barrier to welcome the Americans. SS guards opened fire on other prisoners who went wild with joy and rushed to meet the liberating troops. Prisoners with access to records said 9,000 people died of hunger, disease or shooting within the past three months at Dachau. Four thousand more perished during cold Winter months. When Americans entered the camp, they found 50 open railway cars standing on a siding, apparently full of oiled, dirty clothing but actually found to contain hundreds of corpses piled on top of each other. They also found a row of kennels where fierce doges were kept to set after escaping men. They discovered gas extermination chambers, incinerators full of naked bodies, bodies marked for dissection and the bodies of several small children. BIPPA EA 64858 THIS PHOTO SHOWS: Gaunt, starved and half-dead, these three prisoners, two in striped prison garb, are evidence of the horrors of Dachau. U.S. Signal Corps Photo ETO-HQ-45-35581. SERVICED BY LONDON OWI TO LIST B CERTIFIED AS PASSED BY SHAEF CENSOR"

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    Three survivors pose outside a barracks in the Dachau concentration camp immediately after the liberation.

    The original Signal Corps caption reads, "DACHAU CONCENTRATION CAMP. Horrors worse than those found in the German concentration camps of Buchenwald and Belsen were discovered in the stinking hell-hole of Dachau, captured by troops of the 42nd and 45th Infantry Divivions of the Seventh U.S. Army April 30, 1945. More than 32,000 prisoners were liberated, among those some Englishmen, Canadians and Americans. The camp was formally surrendered by an SS lieutenant carrying a white flag, accompanied by a Swiss Red Cross official, but SS troops opened fire as American troops approached the main entrance. The Germans were shot down. Three prisoners were electrocuted when they tried to burst through the electrified wire barrier to welcome the Americans. SS guards opened fire on other prisoners who went wild with joy and rushed to meet the liberating troops.

    Prisoners with access to records said 9,000 people died of hunger, disease or shooting within the past three months at Dachau. Four thousand more perished during cold Winter months. When Americans entered the camp, they found 50 open railway cars standing on a siding, apparently full of oiled, dirty clothing but actually found to contain hundreds of corpses piled on top of each other. They also found a row of kennels where fierce doges were kept to set after escaping men. They discovered gas extermination chambers, incinerators full of naked bodies, bodies marked for dissection and the bodies of several small children.

    BIPPA EA 64858

    THIS PHOTO SHOWS: Gaunt, starved and half-dead, these three prisoners, two in striped prison garb, are evidence of the horrors of Dachau. U.S. Signal Corps Photo ETO-HQ-45-35581.
    SERVICED BY LONDON OWI TO LIST B
    CERTIFIED AS PASSED BY SHAEF CENSOR"
    Photographer
    Sidney Blau
    Date
    1945 April 30
    Locale
    Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany
    Photo Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Benjamin Ferencz

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    Photo Source
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Provenance: Benjamin Ferencz
    Second Provenance: Stuart McKeever
    Source Record ID: Collections: 1994.A.037
    Second Record ID: Collections: RG-12.019
    Hoover Institution Archives
    Copyright: Exclusively with source
    Source Record ID: U.S. Army Signal Corps Photograph
    KZ-Gedenkstaette Dachau
    Copyright: Exclusively with source
    Source Record ID: Dok. 3657
    Second Record ID: Dok. 4468
    Published Source
    Inside the Vicious Heart: Americans and the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps - Abzug, Robert H. - Oxford University Press - p. 93.

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