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Cheering survivors greet American troops as the first Allied tanks enter the Mauthausen concentration camp.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 74460
Cheering survivors greet American troops as the first Allied tanks enter the Mauthausen concentration camp. According to P. Serge Choumoff, an historian and survivor of Mauthausen, this event was a recreation of the liberation (one day later) done at the request of General Eisenhower.

Cheering survivors greet American troops as the first Allied tanks enter the Mauthausen concentration camp.

According to P. Serge Choumoff, an historian and survivor of Mauthausen, this event was a recreation of the liberation (one day later) done at the request of General Eisenhower.

Date
1945 May 07
Locale
Mauthausen, [Upper Austria] Austria
Photo Designation
MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Mauthausen -- LIBERATION (May 5, 1945) -- Liberators/Greeting Liberators
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Col. P. Richard Seibel

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Rights and Restrictions

Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Col. P. Richard Seibel
Archiv der KZ-Gedenkstaette Mauthausen
Copyright: Public Domain
Provenance: Amicale, France
Second Provenance: Col. P. Richard Seibel
Source Record ID: U/15/09
Second Record ID: U/15/16/28
 
Record last modified: 2009-05-18 00:00:00
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