Under the direction of American soldiers, German civilians transport the bodies of 71 political prisoners, exhumed from a mass grave near Solingen-Ohligs, to new graves in front of the city hall.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 78816

Overview

Caption: Under the direction of American soldiers, German civilians transport the bodies of 71 political prisoners, exhumed from a mass grave near Solingen-Ohligs, to new graves in front of the city hall.

The victims, most of whom were taken from Luettringhausen prison, were shot and buried by the Gestapo following orders to eliminate all Reich enemies just before the end of the war.
Date: 1945 May 01
Locale: Solingen-Ohligs, [Prussian Rhineland; North Rhine-Westphalia] Germany
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

Photo Source: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

Copyright: Public Domain

Source Record ID: 153-Case files 1944-49--box 289--file 12-543

Keyword: ATROCITIES (SOLINGEN) CORPSES CORPSES (REMOVAL OF) EXHUMATION/REBURIAL FORCED CONFRONTATION GERMANS MASS GRAVES SPECTATORS/AUDIENCES/BYSTANDERS TRUCKS
Photo Designation: LIBERATION -- Germany: Atrocities/Death March Victims -- Other -- Solingen