Emaciated survivors in the Ebensee subcamp of the Mauthausen concentration camp suck on sugar cubes provided by American soldiers ... [LCID: 78366]
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Survivors of Ebensee

Emaciated survivors in the Ebensee subcamp of the Mauthausen concentration camp suck on sugar cubes provided by US soldiers upon the liberation of the camp. Photograph taken by Signal Corps photographer J Malan Heslop. Ebensee, Austria, May 8, 1945.

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