File:Mass Grave outside the town of Suttrop - German Mother.jpg

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U.S. Signal Corps
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English: "Under the supervision of American soldiers, a German mother shields the eyes of her son as she walks with other civilians past the bodies of 57 Russians, including women and one baby, exhumed from a mass grave outside the town of Suttrop.
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English: The victims were forced to dig their own grave and then were shot by SS troops six weeks before the arrival of American troops. On May 3, 1945, the 95th Infantry Division of the U.S. Ninth Army arrived in Suttrop and were informed by locals of the mass grave. American troops forced the townspeople to exhume the grave after which Russian displaced persons in the area identified the bodies. The victims were reburied in individual graves, and a U.S. Army chaplain conducted burial services. Russians remaining in the area placed wreaths on the graves".
Date 3.5.1945
institution QS:P195,Q238990
Credit line National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
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Source Record ID: 111-SC-206629 (Album 3209) Photo Credit United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

Record Type Photograph
Source Photograph 08197
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This file is a work of a U.S. Army soldier or employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, it is in the public domain in the United States.

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