A large cheering crowd makes way for a column of soldiers and military equipment, including a tank. They are moving through a large stone gate with two lookouts on either side. There is a large banner hung across the top of the gate.
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American soldiers pass through the main gate of the Mauthausen camp

Survivors of Mauthausen cheer American soldiers as they pass through the main gate of the camp. The photograph was taken several days after the liberation of the camp. Mauthausen, Austria, May 9, 1945.


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