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

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 08180

Overview

Caption: Under the supervision of American soldiers, German civilians look at 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: Ralph P. Oxton
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: 111-SC-266466 (Album 3215)

Second Record ID: 153-Case files 1944-49--box 314--file 12-647

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