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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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Museum, U. S. H. M. (2025, February 14). Dachau Death Train. World History Encyclopedia. https://www.worldhistory.org/image/20038/dachau-death-train/
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Museum, United States Holocaust Memorial. "Dachau Death Train." World History Encyclopedia, February 14, 2025. https://www.worldhistory.org/image/20038/dachau-death-train/.
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Museum, United States Holocaust Memorial. "Dachau Death Train." World History Encyclopedia, 14 Feb 2025, https://www.worldhistory.org/image/20038/dachau-death-train/.
