A monumental pile of leather shoes has been built against a large rock wall. The pile towers above two uniformed soldiers observing on the right.
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Shoes belonging to victims of Flossenbürg

After the liberation of the Flossenbürg concentration camp, two US army infantrymen examine a pile of shoes belonging to victims of the camp. Flossenbürg, Germany, April–May 1945.


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