Survivors move around between rows of barracks in the newly liberated Dachau concentration camp. [LCID: 07971]
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Dachau soon after liberation

Survivors move around between rows of barracks in the newly liberated Dachau concentration camp. Dachau, Germany, May 1945.

This image is among the commonly reproduced and distributed images of liberation. These photographs provided powerful documentation of the crimes of the Nazi era.

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