Dachau_Death_Train.jpeg


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English: Corpses lie in one of the open wagons of the Dachau death train. The Dachau death train consisted of nearly forty wagons containing the bodies of between 2,000 and 3,000 prisoners who were evacuated from Buchenwald on April 7, 1945. The train arrived in Dachau on the afternoon of April 28.
Date 29 April – 1 May 1945
Source United States Holocaust Memorial Museum , Photograph # 85555
Author Eric Schwab

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