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Survivors take down the Nazi eagle that hangs above the entrance to the SS compound in Mauthausen on the day of liberation.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 07765
Survivors take down the Nazi eagle that hangs above the entrance to the SS compound in Mauthausen on the day of liberation. The white car belongs to the Red Cross. A Red Cross representative and two German SS officers arrived at the camp in this car to surrender Mauthausen to the U.S. Army.

Survivors take down the Nazi eagle that hangs above the entrance to the SS compound in Mauthausen on the day of liberation.

The white car belongs to the Red Cross. A Red Cross representative and two German SS officers arrived at the camp in this car to surrender Mauthausen to the U.S. Army.

Photographer
Harry Saunders
Date
1945 May 05 - 1945 May 07
Locale
Mauthausen, [Upper Austria] Austria
Photo Designation
MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Mauthausen -- LIBERATION (May 5, 1945) -- Summary Justice/Revenge
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Harry Saunders

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Harry Saunders
 
Record last modified: 2002-08-23 00:00:00
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