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Stalag VII A - digging air raid ditch

Content Note: Six prisoners pose in the air raid ditch they were digging to prepare in case there was a battle when the liberating forces arrived.

Stalag Luft 3 - Red Cross parcels

Content Note: Stack of several Red Cross Parcels in wooden boxes addressed to prisoners.

"Felsorara"

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Stalag VII A - waiting (2)

Content Note: Prisoners waiting at camp in Moosburg for liberating armies to reach them. Several prisoners sit or lie on the ground next to a tall…

Liberators view the corpses of prisoners who died while trying to escape the burning barn [Gardelegen Incident]

Content Note: The still-smoking, charred corpses of prisoners lie in a pile at one of the doors to the barn. The remains of the gasoline-soaked straw…

Townspeople burying the victims of the Gardelegen Massacre

Content Note: The charred corpses of prisoners lie in rows in an open field. Townspeople dig graves for them. Numbered 13 on the reverse.

A Liberator views the charred corpses of prisoners who died while trying to escape from the burning barn [Gardelegen Incident]

Content Note: Label on the reverse side of the photograph reads "500 burned alive". Two of the charred corpses lie outside the barn door. The…

Charred corpses of prisoners inside the barn burned during the Gardelegen Massacre

Content Note: Photograph is out of focus. Label on the reverse side of the photograph reads "500 burned alive". The corpses lie in a row…

Four townspeople carry the corpse of a prisoner out of the barn in a white sheet [Gardelegen Incident]

Content Note: Label on the reverse side of the photograph reads "500 burned alive". The four men lift the sheet by its corners as they walk through…

Two townspeople place the corpse of a prisoner on a white sheet at the doorway to the barn [Gardelegen Incident]

Content Note: Label on the reverse side of the photograph reads "500 burned alive". Corpses of other prisoners are visible through the doorway. …