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Under the direction of American soldiers, German civilians transport the bodies of 71 political prisoners exhumed from a mass grave on Wenzelnberg near Solingen-Ohligs to the town for reburial.

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    Under the direction of American soldiers, German civilians transport the bodies of 71 political prisoners exhumed from a mass grave on Wenzelnberg near Solingen-Ohligs to the town for reburial.
    Under the direction of American soldiers, German civilians transport the bodies of 71 political prisoners exhumed from a mass grave on Wenzelnberg near Solingen-Ohligs to the town for reburial. 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.

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    Under the direction of American soldiers, German civilians transport the bodies of 71 political prisoners exhumed from a mass grave on Wenzelnberg near Solingen-Ohligs to the town for reburial.

    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
    1945 May 01
    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

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    Photo Source
    National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
    Copyright: Public Domain
    Source Record ID: 153-Case files 1944-49--box 289--file 12-543
    Second Record ID: 111-SC-265472 (Album 3213)
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Provenance: Ilona Shechter
    Second Provenance: Defense Audiovisual Agency

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