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Word: brausebad (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1945-1945
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...naked dead bodies, all of them emaciated. We went on around this building and came to the central crematory. The rooms here, in order, were: 1) the office where the living and the dead were passed through and where all their clothing was stripped from them; 2) the Brausebad (shower) room, where the victims were gassed; and 3) the crematory. In the crematory were two large furnaces. Before the two furnaces were hooks and pulleys on rafters above them. Here, according to a number of Frenchmen, the SS men often hanged prisoners by the necks or by the thumbs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Dachau | 5/7/1945 | See Source »

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