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.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 78823

Overview

Caption: 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

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

Second Record ID: 111-SC-265473 (Album 3213)

Keyword: ATROCITIES (SOLINGEN) BURIAL CORPSES EXHUMATION/REBURIAL FORCED CONFRONTATION FUNERALS GERMANS GRAVES/MARKERS/TOMBSTONES MASS GRAVES SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN)
Photo Designation: LIBERATION -- Germany: Atrocities/Death March Victims -- Other -- Solingen