Caption | German citizens made aware of the atrocities at a nearby prisoners of war camp for captured Soviets, Suttrop, Germany, May 1945 ww2dbase | ||||
Photographer | Unknown | ||||
Source | ww2dbaseUnited States Army Signal Corps | ||||
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Photo Size | 991 x 704 pixels | ||||
Photos on Same Day | 11 May 1945 | ||||
Added By | C. Peter Chen | ||||
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"All that silly talk about the advance of science and such leaves me cold. Give me peace and a retarded science."Thomas Dodd, late 1945
24 Jun 2014 07:42:52 AM
Can't agree with walking the children through, but the citizens deserved to see everything. Like another commenter said in another pic, the odor of decomposing and burning corpses travel for miles and miles. They knew.