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American soldiers and German civilians from Solingen-Ohligs attend funeral services for the 71 political prisoners, exhumed from a mass grave near the town, in front of the city hall.

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    American soldiers and German civilians from Solingen-Ohligs attend funeral services for the 71 political prisoners, exhumed from a mass grave near the town, in front of the city hall.
    American soldiers and German civilians from Solingen-Ohligs attend funeral services for the 71 political prisoners, exhumed from a mass grave near the town, 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.

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    American soldiers and German civilians from Solingen-Ohligs attend funeral services for the 71 political prisoners, exhumed from a mass grave near the town, 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

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    National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
    Copyright: Public Domain
    Source Record ID: 153-Case files 1944-49--box 289--file 12-543
    Second Record ID: 111-SC-265473 (Album 3213)

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