Fleeing Nazi troops left behind grisly evidence of the massacre at Gardelegen. Minnesotan Edmund S. Motzko photographed some of the victims that were left unburied when American troops stumbled on the scene.
Members of the 102nd Infantry Division provided each of the 1,016 victims with an individual grave in a cemetery near the barn where they died, and left the citizens of the village with the responsibility for maintaining the dignity of the gravesites.
Creator: Edmund S. Motzko
Publisher: Edmund S. Motzko, used with permission.
Date: 1945
