| Caption | German citizens made aware of the atrocities at a nearby prisoners of war camp for captured Soviets, Suttrop, Germany, May 1945 ww2dbase | |||||||
| Source | ww2dbaseUnited States Army Signal Corps | |||||||
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| Added By | C. Peter Chen | |||||||
| Added Date | 31 Dec 2011 | |||||||
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24 Jun 2014 07:42:52 AM
Can't agree with walking the children through, but the citizens deserved to see everything. Like another commenter said in another pic, the odor of decomposing and burning corpses travel for miles and miles. They knew.