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Dachau Picture: A Cart Filled With Corpses to Be Buried


(Picture from the David G. Briggs Collection, courtesy of USHMM Photo Archives.)

U.S. troops watch a passing cart laden with corpses intended for burial leave the compound of the Dachau concentration camp. Allied authorities required local farmers to drive their loaded carts through the town of Dachau as an education for the inhabitants. (May 1945)

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