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Victims of Nazi camps near Leipzig

72-3249
Accession Number
72-3249
6.5x4.5 inches
Black & White
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Harry S. Truman Library & Museum.

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Description

Site of mass burning of 250 Polish and French slave laborers at Nazi camp near Leipzig on April 19, 1945, the day before the city was captured by the 69th Div. of the U.S. First Army. The victims were herded into a building. A time bomb was exploded. Men who broke doors down to escape were machine gunned by Nazi S.S. troops. From: album entitled: Nazi War Atrocities."

Date(s)
April 1945