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Deutsch: Soldaten der Division zwingen deutsche Zivilisten aus dem Ort Wallern im Sudetenland sich die exhumierten Leichen von Juden anzusehen. Die Juden waren während eines Todesmarsches in den letzten Kriegstagen, in der Nähe des Ortes durch die SS ermordet und verscharrt worden.
English: On 11 May 1945, the Sudeten German civilians who inhabited Volary (present-day Czech Republic), are forced by US troops to walk past bodies of 30 Jewish women, who were starved to death by German SS troops in a 300 mile (500 kilometres) death march across Czechoslovakia from Helmbrechts concentration camp to Volary. Buried in shallow graves in Volary, the bodies were exhumed by German civilians working under direction of Medics of 5th Infantry Division, U.S. Third Army. Bodies will be placed in coffins and reburied in cemetery in Volary. 5thMed. Bn.
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Sudeten Germans are forced by US soldiers to walk past the bodies of 30 Jewish women starved to death by German SS troops (1945)

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