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As Allied forces fought their way closer to concentration camps, German troops and collaborators, SS men assigned to the "care" of Jews and other prisoners were taken captive in ever-increasing numbers. The men seen here were photographed after they fell into Allied hands. Here is Leonhard Eichberger, a death-march SS guard.
Photo: Drew University Center for Holocaust Study
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Michael Redwitz, SS guard.
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Konrad Belsh, death-march SS guard.
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Jean Scheibel, a guard, possibly not with the SS.
Photo: Drew University Center for Holocaust Study
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May 5, 1945: At the Ebensee, Austria, concentration camp, a brutal German Kapo (foreman) pleads with inmates not to turn him over to approaching Americans as a war criminal. He is attacked by three Jewish boys and killed. Other Germans at Ebensee meet similar fates. Late in the day, a white flag is raised above the Ebensee guard tower.
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May 6, 1945: A death march from Schwarzheide, Germany, to Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia, that began on April 18 halts at Leitmeritz, Czechoslovakia.
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The Holocaust Chronicle
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