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Truck loaded with dead bodies from concentration camp

72-3229 (untitled)
Accession Number
72-3229
6.5x4.5 inches
Black & White
Printer-Friendly Version
NAID 348448197
Keywords
Concentration camps
Holocaust victims
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
World War, 1939-1945
HST Keywords
Germany - Cities and Towns - Belsen
Rights

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Credit:
U.S. Army Signal Corps

Harry S. Truman Library & Museum.

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Description
Truck loaded with dead bodies; most cases were caused from starvation and typhus. This photo is one of a group of photographs taken in German prison camps at Belsen, Germany where the German Gestapo and S. S. Troops tortured and starved many thousands of political prisoners. From album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."
Date(s)
April 1945