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African American soldiers escort German civilians through a site where camp prisoners were massacred during a death march from Buchenwald. [LCID: 85740]
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German civilians are forced to view bodies of victims of a death march

African American soldiers of the US Army escort German civilians through a site where camp prisoners were massacred during a death march from Buchenwald. Such tours forced Germans to recognize the crimes committed by the SS. Near Nammering, Germany, 1945.

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death marches documenting the Holocaust
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