A Nazi party member from Hals and a German prison guard kneel beside the body of a Russian slave laborer who was killed by SS troops near Tiefenbach, near Passau.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 80113

Overview

Caption: A Nazi party member from Hals and a German prison guard kneel beside the body of a Russian slave laborer who was killed by SS troops near Tiefenbach, near Passau.

They were forced to view the atrocity by U.S. Third Army troops. The victim was one of 100 Russians interned in a barn in Oberjacking, a small village near Tiefenbach.
Photographer: J.R. Bradley
Date: 1945 May 02
Locale: Passau, [Bavaria] 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 313--file 12-639 to 12-646

Keyword: ATROCITIES (PASSAU) CORPSES EXECUTION SITES FORCED CONFRONTATION GERMANS GUARDS RUSSIANS/SOVIETS
Photo Designation: LIBERATION -- Germany: Atrocities/Death March Victims -- Other -- Passau