File:Massgrave Suttrop.jpeg
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[edit]English: A German civilian relays information found on the body of one of 57 Russians, exhumed from a mass grave outside the town of Suttrop, to a captain of the 95th Infantry division, U.S. Ninth Army. ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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U.S. Signal Corps |
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Title |
English: A German civilian relays information found on the body of one of 57 Russians, exhumed from a mass grave outside the town of Suttrop, to a captain of the 95th Infantry division, U.S. Ninth Army. |
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Description |
English: The victims, including women and one baby, were forced to dig their own grave and then were shot by SS troops six weeks before the arrival of American troops. On May 3, 1945, the 95th Infantry Division of the U.S. Ninth Army arrived in Suttrop and were informed by locals of the mass grave. American troops forced the townspeople to exhume the grave after which Russian displaced persons in the area identified the bodies. The victims were reburied in individual graves, and a U.S. Army chaplain conducted burial services. Russians remaining in the area placed wreaths on the graves.
The original Signal Corps caption reads, "GERMAN CIVILIANS FORCED TO EXHUME ATROCITY VICTIMS. Amerian officers ordered German civilians of Suttrop, Germany, to exhume the bodies of 57 Russians killed by German SS troops and dumped into a mass grave before the arrival of troops of the Ninth U.S. Army. Soldiers of the 95th Infantry Division were led by informers to the huge common grave of the victims, including women and one baby, May 3, 1945. The Russians are said to have been forced to dig their own burial pit and then were shot so that their bodies would roll into it. The executions are said to have taken place six weeks before U.S. troops entered Suttrop. The German civilians who were forced to exhume the bodies also were forced to search them for identification papers and then rebury them in individual graves. A U.S. Army chaplain performed burial rites and wreaths were placed on the greaves by Russians remaining in the area. Before burial, all German civilians in the vicinity were ordered to view the atrocity victims. |
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Date |
3 May 1945 date QS:P571,+1945-05-03T00:00:00Z/11 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q238990 |
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Credit line | National Archives and Records Administration, College Park | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source Record ID: 111-SC-265484 (Album 3213) |
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Source | 80470 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Public Domain |
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