A man stands in the center of a mass grave filled with corpses. He looks towards the camera with his legs spread to keep balance while standing in and on the bodies. There is another figure behind him walking towards the edge of the grave. Four people stand and walk around the edge.
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Dr. Fritz Klein stands among corpses in a mass grave.

Dr. Fritz Klein stands among corpses in a mass grave at Bergen-Belsen, after the liberation of the camp. He was required to assist in the burial of inmates who died there. Klein was a camp doctor at both Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. Germany, after April 15, 1945.


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