Two survivors wearing protective mitts each grasp one handle of a large metal tool used to move dead bodies. The tool grasps the head of a corpse being drug across the floor towards the crematorium ovens.
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Demonstrating the operation of the Dachau crematorium

Survivors of the Dachau concentration camp demonstrate the operation of the crematorium by dragging a corpse toward one of the ovens. Dachau, Germany, April 29–May 10, 1945.

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


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