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An American investigator from the 79th Infantry Division, U.S. Ninth Army, questions Willi Fabian, a former railroad official and staff member in the Rothensee concentration camp. Fabian was charged with mistreating laborers from Allied nations and was arrested on April 19, 1945 in Barleben, Germany.

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    An American investigator from the 79th Infantry Division, U.S. Ninth Army, questions Willi Fabian, a former railroad official and staff member in the Rothensee concentration camp. Fabian was charged with mistreating laborers from Allied nations and was arrested on April 19, 1945 in Barleben, Germany.
    An American investigator from the 79th Infantry Division, U.S. Ninth Army, questions Willi Fabian, a former railroad official and staff member in the Rothensee concentration camp. Fabian was charged with mistreating laborers from Allied nations and was arrested on April 19, 1945 in Barleben, Germany. When U.S. Ninth Army troops captured the concentration camp for Soviet civilians located near Recklinghausen, Germany, they converted it into a separation center for prisoners of war and war criminals. After the first German prisoners arrived at the camp they were sent to the interrogation department, which was supervised by Captain Harold Puttfer and Lieutenant H. Goodman. The camp had three sections called "cages." One of these was for women, another for persons incarcerated for minor offenses, and the third for hardened criminals. All three sections were filled to capacity, totalling 20,000 prisoners.

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    An American investigator from the 79th Infantry Division, U.S. Ninth Army, questions Willi Fabian, a former railroad official and staff member in the Rothensee concentration camp. Fabian was charged with mistreating laborers from Allied nations and was arrested on April 19, 1945 in Barleben, Germany.

    When U.S. Ninth Army troops captured the concentration camp for Soviet civilians located near Recklinghausen, Germany, they converted it into a separation center for prisoners of war and war criminals. After the first German prisoners arrived at the camp they were sent to the interrogation department, which was supervised by Captain Harold Puttfer and Lieutenant H. Goodman. The camp had three sections called "cages." One of these was for women, another for persons incarcerated for minor offenses, and the third for hardened criminals. All three sections were filled to capacity, totalling 20,000 prisoners.
    Photographer
    A.R. Pilgrene
    Date
    1945 May 02
    Locale
    Recklinghausen, [Prussia; North Rhine-Westphalia] Germany
    Photo Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

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    National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
    Copyright: Public Domain
    Source Record ID: 153-Case files 1944-49--box 313--file 12-645

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