General Henning Linden, assistant commanding general, 42nd Rainbow Infantry Division, confers with various officials during the liberation and surrender of the Dachau concentration camp.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 08916

Overview

Caption: General Henning Linden, assistant commanding general, 42nd Rainbow Infantry Division, confers with various officials during the liberation and surrender of the Dachau concentration camp.

Pictured from left to right are: an aide to SS Lt. Wickert, who surrendered the camp; Lt. Wickert (partially hidden by his aide); Paul M.G. Levy, a Belgian journalist attached to SHAEF, who is serving as an interpreter; Dr. Victor Maurer (back to the camera), the delegate of the International Red Cross, who arranged the terms of the surrender; General Henning Linden; Linden's bodyguards. Maurer is holding a makeshift flag of surrender constructed from a broomstick; [oversize print]
Date: 1945 April 29
Locale: Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Sol Feingold

Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Sol Feingold
Comite International de la Croix Rouge

Copyright: Exclusively with source

Source Record ID: 3103/05

Keyword: ARMBANDS BELGIANS CLOSE-UPS CONCENTRATION CAMPS DACHAU FLAGS INTERPRETERS JOURNALISTS LIBERATION DAY LINDEN, HENNING MILITARY OFFICERS RED CROSS SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN) SS (SCHUTZSTAFFELN) SURRENDER
Photo Designation: MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Dachau -- LIBERATION -- Perpetrators/Surrender