Corpses from a concentration camp in Germany in April 1945

U.S. Army Signal Corp Photograph, Gift of Maude Hayman, from the collection of The National World War II Museum
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Corpses from a concentration camp. "ETO-45-25673. Lt. Moore. 12 April. Signal corps photo. Emaciated, nude corpses stacked like cord-wood in a bin at the German concentration camp at Gotha, Germany tell their own store [sic] of the sadism and brutality of the Nazi gaolers." Gotha, Germany. 12 April 1945.

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Collection of European Theater U.S. Army Signal Corps photographs.
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Gotha
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50.950
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10.717
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Dead persons--Germany
Concentration camps--Germany