| TITEL | Unter Bewachung der 95. Infanterie-Division durch Deutsche ausgehobene Gräber für die ermordeten Zwangsarbeiter in Suttrop. Fototext: "95th U.S. Army Troops occupying Suttrop, Germany [...]. Led by informers to huge common grave containing bodies of 57 Russians, victims, included many women and one baby. Russians are said to have been forced to dig own grave and then forced to kneel at edge of it so that their dead bodies fell into grave when they were shot. German civilians exhumed bodies on orders of American officers, attempted to identify them with aid of russian displaced persons and then reburried them in individual graves. A U.S. Army chaplain performed burial rites, and wreaths were placed on the graves by remaining Russians, before burial of the bodies. All German civilians in the vicinity of the town were ordered to walk past the atrocity victims." |
![Unter Bewachung der 95. Infanterie-Division durch Deutsche ausgehobene Gräber für die ermordeten Zwangsarbeiter in Suttrop. Fototext: "95th U.S. Army Troops occupying Suttrop, Germany [...]. Led by informers to huge common grave containing bodies of 57 Russians, victims, included many women and one baby. Russians are said to have been forced to dig own grave and then forced to kneel at edge of it so that their dead bodies fell into grave when they were shot. German civilians exhumed bodies on orders of American officers, attempted to identify them with aid of russian displaced persons and then reburried them in individual graves. A U.S. Army chaplain performed burial rites, and wreaths were placed on the graves by remaining Russians, before burial of the bodies. All German civilians in the vicinity of the town were ordered to walk past the atrocity victims." / NARA, Washington](https://www.lwl.org/westfaelische-geschichte/portal/Internet/input_felder/anzeigen.php?verzeichnis=med&dateiname=med2788.jpg&bild_id=2788 "Unter Bewachung der 95. Infanterie-Division durch Deutsche ausgehobene Gräber für die ermordeten Zwangsarbeiter in Suttrop. Fototext: \"95th U.S. Army Troops occupying Suttrop, Germany [...]. Led by informers to huge common grave containing bodies of 57 Russians, victims, included many women and one baby. Russians are said to have been forced to dig own grave and then forced to kneel at edge of it so that their dead bodies fell into grave when they were shot. German civilians exhumed bodies on orders of American officers, attempted to identify them with aid of russian displaced persons and then reburried them in individual graves. A U.S. Army chaplain performed burial rites, and wreaths were placed on the graves by remaining Russians, before burial of the bodies. All German civilians in the vicinity of the town were ordered to walk past the atrocity victims.\" / NARA, Washington")
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