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German civilians load corpses exhumed from a mass grave onto a wagon to be transported to a proper burial site.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 82817
German civilians load corpses exhumed from a mass grave onto a wagon to be transported to a proper burial site.

German civilians load corpses exhumed from a mass grave onto a wagon to be transported to a proper burial site.

Photographer
Don Bradler
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

About This Photograph

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.

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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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