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Photograph of a lead pipe found in the Muehldorf labor camp.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 70571
Photograph of a lead pipe found in the Muehldorf labor camp. The back of the photograph reads: "Lead pipe used to knock skull of prisoners who were too sick to work."

Photograph of a lead pipe found in the Muehldorf labor camp.

The back of the photograph reads: "Lead pipe used to knock skull of prisoners who were too sick to work."

Date
Circa 1945
Locale
Muehldorf, [Bavaria] Germany
Photo Designation
MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Dachau Sub-camps -- Other Dachau Sub-camps -- Weingut I-II
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Toni Sciarra Poynter

About This Photograph

Biography
Ivo E. Sciarra, an American army officer, was involved with war crimes gathering and took photographs of the Muehldorf labor camp.

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Rights and Restrictions

Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Toni Sciarra Poynter
 
Record last modified: 2014-08-28 00:00:00
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