Corpses piled in the crematorium mortuary. These rooms became so filled with bodies that the SS staff and survivors began to pile corpses behind the crematorium, where they were found by U.S. troops during the liberation of the camp.
Photograph | Photograph Number: 85672
- Date
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1945 April 29
- Locale
- Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany
- Photo Designation
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MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Dachau -- LIBERATION -- Victims -- Victims/Burial/Confrontation
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
Corpses piled in the crematorium mortuary. These rooms became so filled with bodies that the SS staff and survivors began to pile corpses behind the crematorium, where they were found by U.S. troops during the liberation of the camp.
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