American troops with the 82nd Airborne Division look on as German exhume corpses from a mass grave. [LCID: 76892]
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Exhumation of corpses from a mass grave

US troops with the 82nd Airborne Division look on as Germans are forced to exhume corpses from a mass grave. Wöbbelin, Germany, May 6, 1945.

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liberating units US Army camps Germany liberation Wöbbelin
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