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Dachau Photographs: American Soldiers Find Dead Prisoners in Boxcars at Dachau

(April 30, 1945)

U.S. soldiers discovered these boxcars loaded with dead prisoners outside of the Dachau camp. They forced German boys (pictured) (presumably members of the Hitler youth) to confront the atrocity.

Source: National Archives