Overview
- Caption
- Two American officers with the 94th Division count 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. - 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-266497 (Album 3215)
Keywords & Subjects
- Record last modified:
- 2005-07-28 00:00:00
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