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The bodies of former prisoners are piled outside the crematorium at the newly liberated Dachau concentration camp.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 85124
The bodies of former prisoners are piled outside the crematorium at the newly liberated Dachau concentration camp.

The bodies of former prisoners are piled outside the crematorium at the newly liberated Dachau concentration camp.

Date
1945 May 04
Locale
Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany
Photo Designation
MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Dachau -- LIBERATION -- Victims -- Victims/Burial/Confrontation
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Milton F. Gowen

About This Photograph

Event History
These photographs, including posed reenactment photographs in the crematorium, were taken by a committee of former Yugoslav prisoners for their records and then widely distributed to American soldiers. [source: photo caption by American liberator, Staff Sergeant Frank Magid]

See https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005214.
See Also "Dachau Main Camp" in Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, Volume 1, Part A.
See Also https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005131.

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Rights and Restrictions

Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Milton F. Gowen
Muzeum Niepodleglosci
Copyright: Public Domain
 
Record last modified: 2005-03-29 00:00:00
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