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 69th Inf. Div. First U.S. Army. The victims were herded into a building. A time bomb was exploded. Men who broke doors down to escape, were machine gunned
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- 1945
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- National Photo Company
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- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
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- 4,096 × 3,290 pixels
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"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 69th Inf. Div. First U.S. Army. The victims were herded into a building. A time bomb was exploded. Men who broke doors down to escape, were machine gunned" (1945). National Photo Company. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: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_69th_Inf._Div._First_U.S._Army._The_victims_LCCN90709903.jpgNeed photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 362844.
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