Advanced Search

Learn About The Holocaust

Special Collections

My Saved Research

Login

Register

Help

Skip to main content

American soldiers force German troops to see the bodies of those who starved to death in Woebbelin.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 51749
American soldiers force German troops to see the bodies of those who starved to death in Woebbelin. Original Caption: "An American MP escorts the line of German soldiers marched past the graves of the Wobbelin concentration camp starvation visctims under the supervision of the 82nd Airborne Division, U.S. Ninth Army, in the town of Ludwigslust, Germany, where graves have been prepared by German civilians. 5/7/45"

American soldiers force German troops to see the bodies of those who starved to death in Woebbelin.

Original Caption: "An American MP escorts the line of German soldiers marched past the graves of the Wobbelin concentration camp starvation visctims under the supervision of the 82nd Airborne Division, U.S. Ninth Army, in the town of Ludwigslust, Germany, where graves have been prepared by German civilians. 5/7/45"

Date
1945 May 07
Locale
Ludwigslust, [Mecklenburg] Germany
Photo Designation
LIBERATION -- Germany: Atrocities/Death March Victims -- Woebbelin/Ludwigslust/Schwerin
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Laszlo Berkowits

Keywords and Subjects

Rights and Restrictions

Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Laszlo Berkowits
 
Record last modified: 2011-03-09 00:00:00
This page: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa1173695