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American troops inspect the site of the Gardelegen atrocity. [LCID: 17077]
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Site of the Gardelegen atrocity

American troops inspect the site of the Gardelegen atrocity. In the background, German civilians exhume corpses who were buried in a mass grave by the SS. Germany, April 18, 1945.

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