Dachau Death Train

Illustration

Scarlett Hart
by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
published on 14 February 2025
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A carriage full of corpses in an open wagon of the Dachau death train. The train consisted of almost 40 wagons, and contained between 2,000 and 3,000 bodies when discovered by the U.S. military forces in the spring of 1945. Dachau was a Nazi concentration camp in Germany. (National Archives and Records Administration, College Park)

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