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Prisoners barracks, Flossenbürg Concentration Camp, Germany, 1942	He 111Z glider tug aircraft taking off (left side of photograph) at Regensburg-Obertraubling Airfield, Germany, 1943; note three Me 321 gliders (upper right) and six Me 323 Gigant heavy transports (center right) at rest

Horst Grund with his mother Marie Elisabeth Grund by the Isar River in Landshut, southern Germany, Apr 1943	Crematorium at Flossenbürg Concentration Camp, Germany, Apr 1945

Men of US 101st Infantry Regiment running past a burning fuel trailer in square of Kronach, Bayreuth, Germany, 14 Apr 1945	Two US soldiers looking at a sign made by prisoners of Flossenbürg Concentration Camp, Germany, 23 Apr 1945

German civilians exhuming remains of 140 prisoners originally from Flossenbürg Concentration Camp about 50km to the northeast, near Schwarzenfeld, Germany, 24 Apr 1945	US Army African-American crew of the 761st Tank Battalion on a M5A1 Stuart light tank in Coburg, Bayreuth, Germany, 25 Apr 1945. Note white flags hanging from upper palace windows. Also note evidence that those windows have been machine gunned.

Barracks, Flossenbürg Concentration Camp, Germany, Apr-May 1945	Main gate of Flossenbürg Concentration Camp, Germany, May 1945

US soldiers looking at a large pile of shoes belonging to prisoners who had perished at Flossenbürg Concentration Camp, Germany, May 1945	Fence, Flossenbürg Concentration Camp, Germany, 3 May 1945

German civilians using ox carts to transport corpses of prisoners out of Flossenbürg Concentration Camp for burial, Germany, 3 May 1945; note 'Arbeit macht frei' slogan on the gate	Recently liberated prisoners of Flossenbürg Concentration Camp recovering from typhus, Germany, 3 May 1945

Technical Sergeant James Flaha of US 97th Infantry Division band at a funeral for former Flossenbürg Concentration Camp prisoners who had died after liberation shortly after liberation, Germany, 3 May 1945	An aircraft factory located near Flossenbürg Concentration Camp, operated with forced laborers from the camp during the war, Germany, 4 May 1945

Quarry, near Flossenbürg Concentration Camp, Germany, 5 May 1945	A German woman covering her nose and mouth as she walked by the 800 exhumed bodies of forced laborers murdered by SS men, near Nammering, Germany, 17 May 1945