Overview
- Caption
- Recently liberated Soviet POWs enjoy American food rations.
Original Caption: "Russian prisoners of war liberated in Hemer, Germany, by the Ninth US Army celebrated May Day, 1945 by holding a banquet of 'C' rations. Infantrymen of the 75th Infantry Division are shown handing out boxes of the rations for the banquet. There were 22,000 Russians in the Hemer camp, 9,000 of them hosptial cases suffering from tuberculosis, dysentery, typhus and malnutrition." - Date
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1945 May 01
- Locale
- Hemer, [Prussian Westphalia; North Rhine-Westphalia] Germany
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Joseph Eaton
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Joseph Eaton
Keywords & Subjects
- Record last modified:
- 2011-02-28 00:00:00
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