Caption

Identification of the dead following the retreat of the Wehrmacht. The German occupiers shot all prisoners in front of they withdrew. Soldiers as well as civilians. Rostov-on-Don, Soviet Union, February 1943 These recordings of J. Chaldej were also used as evidence at the Nuremberg war crimes trials

Date

Feb 20, 1943

Credit line

Photo12/ImageBROKER/Jewgeni Chaldej / Sammlung E.Volland & H.Krimmer

Reference

BRK26H41_085

Model release

No

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

51.7Mb (17.2Mb) / 17.0in x 11.8in / 5101 x 3543 (300dpi)

Keywords

Second World War history soldier army world war politics Bavaria German Europe recording Russia dead historic Franconia Russian military political evidence Southern Germany european conflict Middle Franconian Middle Franconia contemporary history Nuremberg prisoner February warfare Germany war Soviet Union military affairs Wehrmacht Central Europe 1939-1945 Southern Russia War crimes these Russian campaign Evidence World War II Bayern shot Russian Federation historical proof South Germany Mittelfranken convict German Federal Republic USSR Middle Europe World War 2 WW II WW2 WWII WW 2 Republic of Germany soldiers world wars recordings evidences conflicts prisoners warfares wars historically convicts Bavaria's Europe's historical image history image history images FRG BRD udssr