American soldiers stand among corpses laid out for burial by German civilians conscripted to clean up the Ohrdruf concentration camp. Due to a lack of information about the names of the dead, each body was assigned a number to be placed on the grave marker.
Photograph | Photograph Number: 12079
- Date
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1945 April 04 - 1945 April 15
- Locale
- Ohrdruf, [Thuringia] Germany
- Photo Designation
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MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Buchenwald Sub-Camps -- Ohrdruf -- LIBERATION -- Victims/Burial/Confrontation
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Milton Schloss
American soldiers stand among corpses laid out for burial by German civilians conscripted to clean up the Ohrdruf concentration camp. Due to a lack of information about the names of the dead, each body was assigned a number to be placed on the grave marker.
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