Under the supervision of American soldiers, German civilians exhume the bodies of 71 political prisoners from a mass grave on Wenzelnberg near Solingen-Ohligs.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 08176

Overview

Caption: Under the supervision of American soldiers, German civilians exhume the bodies of 71 political prisoners from a mass grave on Wenzelnberg near Solingen-Ohligs.

The victims, most of whom were taken from Luettringhausen prison, were shot and buried by the Gestapo following orders to eliminate all Reich enemies just before the end of the war.
Date: 1945 April 30
Locale: Solingen-Ohligs, [Prussian Rhineland; North Rhine-Westphalia] Germany
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

Photo Source: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

Copyright: Public Domain

Source Record ID: 153-Case files 1944-49--box 288--file 12-536

Keyword: ATROCITIES (SOLINGEN) CORPSES EXECUTION SITES EXHUMATION/REBURIAL FORCED CONFRONTATION GERMANS MASS GRAVES STRETCHERS
Photo Designation: LIBERATION -- Germany: Atrocities/Death March Victims -- Other -- Solingen