US WW2 New York Times Press Photo

In a very good condition a US WW2 Press Photo of US soldiers after their liberation from a German POW Camp on 22 April 1945.
The photo comes in a large size of approx 18x20cm.
The group were liberated by the US 11th Armoured Division. (Justlike our other press photo from David Goldin that we have for sale)

Article of the 'New York Times':
Thousands of American soldiers captured in December 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge were taken to Stalag 9B POW camp in Bad Orb, Germany. The Jewish GIs were housed in separate barracks under SS guard for several weeks. On February 8, 1945, a group of 350 soldiers including the Jewish GIs, together with others identified as undesirable, were boarded onto boxcars without food or water and transferred to the Berga labor camp, a sub-camp of Buchenwald, where they arrived on February 13, 1945. There they were forced to work twelve hour days digging tunnels into the cliffs bordering the Elster River, where the Germans intended to build an underground synthetic fuel factory. The prisoners, who were fed only bread and soup, deprived of all sanitation facilities and beaten regularly, died at an enormous rate. When the order to evacuate the camp was given, the surviving American POWs were put on a death march, during which dozens more perished before their liberation on April 22, 1945 by units of the 11th Armored Division. A handful successfully managed to escape, but only approximately half of the original 350 survived.

A very historical press photo!

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