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Pile of prisoners clothing found near the crematorium in the Dachau concentration camp.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 49659
Pile of prisoners clothing found near the crematorium in the Dachau concentration camp. Original caption reads, "Dachau Atrocity Camp: Tattered clothes from prisoners who were forced to strip before they were killed, lay in huge piles in the infamous Dachau concentration camp which was liberated by the 7th U.S. Army troops. Clothing was reused because of material shortages."

Pile of prisoners clothing found near the crematorium in the Dachau concentration camp.

Original caption reads, "Dachau Atrocity Camp: Tattered clothes from prisoners who were forced to strip before they were killed, lay in huge piles in the infamous Dachau concentration camp which was liberated by the 7th U.S. Army troops. Clothing was reused because of material shortages."

Photographer
Sidney Blau
Date
1945 April 30
Locale
Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany
Photo Designation
MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Dachau -- LIBERATION -- Artifacts/Prisoners' Property
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Stuart McKeever

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Stuart McKeever
Source Record ID: Collections: 1996.A.71
 
Record last modified: 2015-10-16 00:00:00
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