A Nazi party member from Hals and a German prison guard kneel beside the body of a Russian slave laborer who was killed by SS troops near Tiefenbach, near Passau .

They were forced to view the atrocity by U.S. Third Army troops. The victim was one of 100 Russians interned in a barn in Oberjacking, a small village near Tiefenbach.

Date: May 2, 1945
Locale: Passau , [Bavaria] Germany
Photographer: J.R. Bradley
Credit: USHMM, courtesy of National Archives

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