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| Keywords: Buchenwald Zeitz Mass Grave 80916.jpg Under the direction of American soldiers German civilians exhume the bodies of prisoners from a mass grave 14 km east of Zeitz On June 18 1945 the 7th U S Army 69th Infantry Division was notified about a mass grave near Zeitz The grave was discovered by a Dutch soldier who had been a prisoner for three years in the nearby labor camp of Troeglitz a sub-camp of Buchenwald The 400 victims exhumed from the grave were also prisoners of Troeglitz which provided labor for Brabag Braunkohle-Benzin AG All the victims were male and without identification except for a few with numbers on their tattered and partly decayed clothing Civilians from the area claimed that the bodies were buried just before the arrival of U S Army troops Photographed by Ernest J Braun Zeitz Prussian Saxony;Saxony-Anhalt Germany June 18 1945 http //www ushmm org/ United States Holocaust Memorial Museum courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration College Park PD-USGov Corpses in Buchenwald concentration camp Images from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Forced labor of Germans after World War II Allied confrontation of Germans with Holocaust 69th Infantry Division US Army | ||||
