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The 8th Infantry Division — Photograph

After the liberation of the Wöbbelin camp, US troops forced the townspeople of Ludwigslust to bury the bodies of prisoners killed in the camp. This photograph shows the funeral for the victims. Germany, May 7, 1945.

After the liberation of the Wöbbelin camp, US troops forced the townspeople of Ludwigslust to bury the bodies of prisoners killed in the camp. This photograph shows the funeral for the victims. Germany, May 7, 1945.

— Courtesy of Dr. Alfred B. Sundquist; US Holocaust Memorial Museum



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