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Ruchen [Rühen], and Wolfsburg Children's Homes, Germany: killing of allied children...
Catalogue reference: WO 309/172
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1945 Feb - July
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Ruchen [Rühen], and Wolfsburg Children's Homes, Germany: killing of allied children by neglect.
Includes 20 photographs depicting: HQ BAOR: War Crimes Group (NWE); Ruhen [Rühen], Cemetery, Germany - bodies of Russian and Polish infants being exhumed; Polish mother (who dug grave for her child) and father beside the grave; Heinz Behrs, director of Economic Department, Peoples Car Works. Dated 1945.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- BAOR/WCG 15228/2/C1593 Part 1
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