Collection: APLIN MARJORIE JOSEPHINE (MRS)

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Object description

Three photographic prints relating to the liberation of Dachau Concentration Camp, including dead prisoners and SS guards executed by the inmates. Ten prints taken at Berchtesgaten in May 1945, mostly showing damage to buildings caused by Allied air raids. There is also one photograph showing Hitler and senior Wehrmacht officers (including Keitel and Jodl) at a strategy planning meeting and a portrait photograph of a German Army officer. The latter photographs were picked up at Berchtesgaten and the barracks at Erlingen.

Object details

Category: Photographs
Related period: Second World War (production), Second World War (content)
Creator: Unknown Photographer
Dimensions: Prints: 15
Catalogue number: 2009-06-11

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