Overview
- Caption
- Lt. Col. A. H. Smith (left) of the War Crimes Branch, Judge Advocate General Department, and Lt. Walter Szelaga examine the bodies of 71 political prisoners exhumed 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. - Photographer
- Edward Symsek
- Date
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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
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
Copyright: Public DomainSource Record ID: 111-SC-205349Second Record ID: 153-Case files 1944-49--box 288--file 12-536 to 12-541
Keywords & Subjects
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- 2003-10-24 00:00:00
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