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Allied POWs cheer as tanks from the American 6th armored division arrive to liberate them.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 46518

Allied POWs cheer as tanks from the American 6th armored division arrive to liberate them.

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Caption: Allied POWs cheer as tanks from the American 6th armored division arrive to liberate them.
Date: April 1945
Locale: Bad Sulza, [Thuringia] Germany
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

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Photo Source: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

Copyright: Public Domain

Source Record ID: 111-SC-203548

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Keyword: BAD SULZA BARRACKS FENCES GREETING LIBERATORS POW CAMPS POWS (AMERICAN) POWS (BRITISH) POWS (FRENCH) POWS (SOVIET) SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN) SURVIVORS WATCH TOWERS
Photo Designation: POWS/POW CAMPS -- Germany -- Bad Sulza

Record last modified:: 2004-04-29 00:00:00
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