Saturday, February 22, 2014

The Music Has Died - News -

The Music Has Died - News

Sadly the last of the famed Von Trapp family has died.  She was part of the German Nazi occupation era.



Site of mass burning of 250 Polish and French slave laborers at Nazi camp near Leipzig on April 19, 1945, the day before the city was captured by 69th Inf. Div. First U.S. Army. The victims were herded into a building. A time bomb was exploded. Men who broke doors down to escape, were machine gunned by Nazi SS troops 
Date Created/Published: 1945 April 20. 

Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-101119 (b&w film copy neg.)

Source: U.S. Library of Congress

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