Corpses piled in the mortuary below the crematorium. These rooms became so full of corpses that the SS staff and survivors began to pile corpses behind the crematorium, where they were found by U.S. troops during the liberation of the camp.
Photograph | Photograph Number: 85674A
- Date
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1945 April 29 - May 1945
- Locale
- Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany
- Photo Designation
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MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Dachau -- LIBERATION -- Victims -- Victims/Burial/Confrontation
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of William Grunert
Corpses piled in the mortuary below the crematorium. These rooms became so full of corpses that the SS staff and survivors began to pile corpses behind the crematorium, where they were found by U.S. troops during the liberation of the camp.
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