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American soldiers view the bodies in one of the open railcars of the Dachau death train.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 16999
American soldiers view the bodies in one of the open railcars of the Dachau death train.

American soldiers view the bodies in one of the open railcars of the Dachau death train.

Date
1945 April 29 - 1945 April 30
Locale
Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany
Photo Designation
MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Dachau -- LIBERATION -- Victims -- Death Train
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

About This Photograph

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.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
 
Record last modified: 2003-05-30 00:00:00
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