American military authorities question a German civilian from Estedt (pictured third from right) about the atrocity that occurred near the town.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 82816

Date: 1945 May 11
Locale: Estedt, [Saxony-Anhalt; Gardelegen] Germany
Photo Designation: LIBERATION -- Germany: Atrocities/Death March Victims -- Other -- Estedt
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

Event History: During a death march of Polish, Russian, and Jewish prisoners from Mieste to Gardelegen, a number of prisoners escaped into the Zichtauer Forest, where some of them were spotted by local farmers, who immediately alerted the police. After the arrival of German authorities, the prisoners were captured and marched to a site near Estedt. There they had large graves dug and the prisoners were shot on the spot.

https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10006173.
Keyword: ATROCITIES (GARDELEGEN)
DEATH MARCHES (DORA)
FORCED CONFRONTATION
GERMANS
SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN)
WAR CRIMES INVESTIGATIONS
Photo Source: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

Copyright: Public Domain

Source Record ID: 153-Case files 1944-49--box 314--file 12-661
: Record last modified: 2001-12-11 00:00:00
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