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View of the entrance to the Dachau concentration camp with the Prussian eagle perched on top.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 62261
View of the entrance to the Dachau concentration camp with the Prussian eagle perched on top.

View of the entrance to the Dachau concentration camp with the Prussian eagle perched on top.

Photographer
Colonel Alexander Zabin
Date
May 1945
Locale
Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany
Photo Designation
MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Dachau -- LIBERATION -- Views -- Entrances/Gates
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Colonel Alexander Zabin

About This Photograph

Biography
Alexander Zabin was an American soldier from Malverne, Long Island, New York, serving with the 4th Auxiliary Surgical Group in the US Third Army when he visited Dachau in mid-May 1945. He had landed in Normandy on the day after D-day and moved with the Third Army through France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, and Czechoslovakia.

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Rights and Restrictions

Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Colonel Alexander Zabin
Source Record ID: Collections: 2002.189
 
Record last modified: 2003-06-05 00:00:00
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