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View of one wing of a Gestapo prison in Koeln.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 77085
View of one wing of a Gestapo prison in Koeln. It was the only wing of the prison that escaped bombing by Allied warplanes. The entire building contained nearly a quarter-mile of cells. Most of the inmates were charged with being members of the underground and with aiding or hiding Russians and Poles. Upon the prison's capture by First U.S. Army troops on 6 March 1945, 80 prisoners remained.

View of one wing of a Gestapo prison in Koeln.

It was the only wing of the prison that escaped bombing by Allied warplanes. The entire building contained nearly a quarter-mile of cells. Most of the inmates were charged with being members of the underground and with aiding or hiding Russians and Poles. Upon the prison's capture by First U.S. Army troops on 6 March 1945, 80 prisoners remained.

Photographer
Sgt. McNulty
Date
1945 March 16
Locale
Koeln, [Prussian Rhineland; North Rhine-Westphalia] Germany
Variant Locale
Cologne
Photo Designation
LIBERATION -- Germany: General -- Prisons
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

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Rights and Restrictions

Photo Source
National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
Copyright: Public Domain
Source Record ID: 153-Case files 1944-49--box 264--file 12-390 to 12-404
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Nancy & Michael Krzyzanowski
Source Record ID: U.S. Army Signal Corps Photograph
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Solomon Bogard
 
Record last modified: 2009-09-21 00:00:00
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