Nazi Death Marches / Dachau / Photo, 1945

Nazi Germany / The Holocaust / Death Marches Dachau concentration camp inmates on a death march, walking through Starnberg, Bavaria. (Prisoners from concentration camps and prisoner of war camps situated in the new Reichsgaue, were marched to camps inside Germany proper, away from reach of the Allied forces. The purpose was to remove evidence of crimes against humanity committed inside the camps and to prevent the liberation of German-held prisoners of war). Photo, 28.4.1945.

Restrictions

Exclusive and historically significant photo

ID

AKG423943

ProductionDate

1945-04-28

EventDate

1945-04-28

Credit line

akg-images / Benno Gantner

Photographer

Benno Gantner

Technique

Photograph

Time period

1940S

20th century

2nd millennium A.D.

Topic

World Religion

The Holocaust

History

Jews

Concentration Camp

War

National Socialism

Politics

Rain

Amateur Photo

Holocaust

End of War

Evacuation

Prisoners

Second World War

Death March

Concentration-Camp Prisoner

Third Reich

Liberation (Concentration Camps)

Liberation (2nd World War)

Location

Bavaria

Germany

Dachau

Person