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German civilians forced to bury murdered slave workers. German women assist in digging the graves for the 800 massacred slave workers.

Nordhausen rests in peace. Flowers and a cross mark a single grave in the foreground while white markers indicate the mass graves (background) of slave workers who died from starvation, discase and torture at Lager-Nordhausen, Nazi slave labor camp where an estimated 9,000 persons lost their lives in 1944. When troops of the First U.S. Army entered the camp near Nordhausen April 10, 1945, they were ...

German civilians forced to bury murdered slave workers. Carts loaded with the bodies of murdered slave workers move out of the town of Namering, Germany, followed by a procession of women carrying flowers and repeating burial chants.

German civilians forced to bury murdered slave workers. Prayers are led by a priest at the burial of the 800 victims of the SS massacre.

German civilians forged to bury murdered slave workers. Two small boys of Namering, Germany, stand at left apart from the crowd of women and children on the right and in the background as the men of the town bury the 800 slave workers who were massacred by Nazi storm troopers. Troops of the Third U.S. Army stood guard over the Germans.

' German Civilians Bury Victims Of Nazi Sadism. Troops of the 9th U.S. Army march civilians of Gardelegen to the nearby camp, where the bodies of the murdered prisoners were tossed into a mass grave. The civilians dig individual graves and reburied each victim. '

'Heading for home: These stalwart members of the Royal Rifles of Canada, undefeated by almost four years of Jap prison camps, show their satisfaction of getting back to good Canadian food and good Canadian soil again. These men arrived at Victoria, British Columbia, aboard the USS Gosper from Manila. Shown here, from left to right (front): Rfn. W. Leggo, Gaspe; Rfn. A. Kelso, Bury, Que.; L. Leblanc ...

' Nordhausen Death Camp. The emaciated body of a slave worker lies in the open communal grave, on a hillside overlooking the V-bomb factory where slave laborers were slowly murdered in Nordhausen, Germany. Troops of the First U.S. Army occupied Nordhausen April 10, 1945 and ordered the town's leading citizens to bury the rotting and skeleton-like dead. When the Americans seized the concentration camp, ...

Memorial service for town of Lidice. More than 100.000 persons gathered for a memorial service June 10th 1945, on the site of what once was the village of Lidice. Completely obliterated by the Germans in retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard (known as 'The Hangman') Heydrich, June 10, 1942. Benes was present and reviewed Russian and Czech troops in the barren area. Germans systematically erased ...

Officieren en manschappen van een van de destroyers van de Britse Oost-Indische vloot zijn teruggekeerd na een aanval op een Japanse konvooi in de Andaman Sea. Maart 1945. 'Shattered Japanese Convoy. `Back in harbour` picture of officers and men of one of the destroyers of the British East Indies Fleet which shattered a Japanese convoy and escorts in the Andaman Sea in March 1945. Picture shows: Torpedo ...

' Two Germans place another body of a slave laborer beside a row of 30 bodies of Russian and Polish women slave laborers exhumed for identification in Hembrechts, Germany. The women, who were bru-tally killed or died from mistreatment and malnutrition, were stripped of all clothing and wrapped in paper for burial in the city dump. A rus-sian women, who was forces to dig the graves and help bury the ...