German civilians clear rubble from the Nordhausen camp to make room for corpses that were to be piled there.
- Photographer
- James E. Myers
- Date
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Circa 1945 March 12
- Locale
- Nordhausen, [Thuringia] Germany
- Photo Designation
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MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Dora-Mittelbau Sub-camps -- Nordhausen -- LIBERATION -- Victims/Burial/Confrontation
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Daniel R. Willey
German civilians clear rubble from the Nordhausen camp to make room for corpses that were to be piled there.
Photo caption reads: "German civilians clear rubble from N yard of Lager Nordhausen, a Gestapo concentration camp near Nordhausen, Germany, in order to make room for bodies of several hundred inmates who died of starvation or were shot by Gestapo men. The concentration camp, according to G-2, 104th Infantry Division, 1st U.S. Army, had from 3,000 to 4,000 inmates, including French, Polish, Belgian, a few Russian and several German political prisoners. All the prisoners were maltreated, beaten and starved."
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