The story
Precious metals, paintings, and other loot hidden by Germans in a salt mine near Merkers, Germany, 15 Apr 1945US Army Corporal Donald Ornitz examining a looted painting in the Merkers salt mine, Germany, Apr 1945Supervised by American soldiers, German civilians from the town of Nordhausen, Germany bury the corpses of prisoners found at the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp in mass graves, mid-Apr 1945Damaged buildings of Kolberg, Germany (now Kolobrzeg, Poland), mid-1945
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You have arrived at just one small part of Back to Normandy — a personal project dedicated to preserving stories, images, music and memories of the Second World War.
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