Dead concentration camp prisoners, Dachau, 1945

Gift of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, from the Collections of The National World War II Museum
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Photograph. The corpses of Dachau concentration camp prisoners are piled, wrapped in sheets inside a bare room. Printed caption on photo front: "Cordwood for human furnace." Dachau, Germany. 1945

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1945
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This collection consists of 85 photographs and one postcard donated by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. These are Signal Corps photos that detail war-related activities in North Africa, Europe, and the liberation of Dachau.
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Dachau
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48.267
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11.433
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Dead persons--Germany
Concentration camps--Germany