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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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    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.
    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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    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.
    Date
    1945 April 29 - May 1945
    Locale
    Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany
    Photo Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of William Grunert

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    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Provenance: William Grunert

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    1996-05-07 00:00:00
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