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Germans are forced to rebury the corpses of slave laborers who were killed near Essen shortly before the end of the war.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 09184
Germans are forced to rebury the corpses of slave laborers who were killed near Essen shortly before the end of the war. Original caption reads: "Kraut civies digging up for reburial part of the several thousand slave laborers that were murdered near Essen, Germany, May 45."

Germans are forced to rebury the corpses of slave laborers who were killed near Essen shortly before the end of the war.

Original caption reads: "Kraut civies digging up for reburial part of the several thousand slave laborers that were murdered near Essen, Germany, May 45."

Date
May 1945
Locale
Essen, [Prussian Rhineland] Germany
Variant Locale
[North Rhine-Westphalia]
Photo Designation
LIBERATION -- Germany: Atrocities/Death March Victims -- Other -- Essen
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Randal K. Morse

About This Photograph

Biography
Paul Victor Morse, the phtoographer, was stationed at Essen, Germany in 1945 - U.S. Army service #39338052

Keywords and Subjects

Rights and Restrictions

Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Randal K. Morse
 
Record last modified: 2014-01-29 00:00:00
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