Bodies litter the ground outside of wooden buildings. Several carts full of corpses and supplies can also be seen scattered around the walkway.
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Corpses found when US troops liberated Gusen

Corpses found when US troops liberated the Gusen camp, a subcamp of the Mauthausen concentration camp. Austria, after May 12, 1945.


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