American soldiers of the U.S. 7th Army, force boys believed to be Hitler youth, to examine boxcars containing bodies of prisoners starved to death by the SS.
Overview
- Caption
- American soldiers of the U.S. 7th Army, force boys believed to be Hitler youth, to examine boxcars containing bodies of prisoners starved to death by the SS.
Original caption reads: "Seventh U.S. Army soldiers force these young Germans, believed to be members of the Hitler Youth movement, to view roofless freight cars filled with the bodies of victims of Nazi atrocities who died en route to Dachau. Many German boys have been caught acting as snipers against U.S. troops in Germany." - Date
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1945 April 30
- Locale
- Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
- Event History
- The Dachau death train consisted of nearly forty railcars containing the bodies of between 2,000 and 3,000 prisoners who were evacuated from Buchenwald on April 7, 1945. The train arrived in Dachau on the afternoon of April 28.
[Source: "Allemagne, avril-mai 1945: Photographies d'Eric Schwab." Centre historique des Archives nationales, Paris 2003, p. 52.]
https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005162.
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
Copyright: Public DomainSource Record ID: 111-SC-264814 (Album 3212)
Keywords & Subjects
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- 2013-02-19 00:00:00
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