Faces of Liberation – Allach Subcamp, 30 April 1945

Another close-up of the cheering liberated prisoners at the Allach concentration camp subcamp.

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The Allach subcamp was one of the largest satellite camps of Dachau concentration camp, located in Munich’s Allach-Untermenzing district. Up to 5,000 prisoners were forced to perform slave labor for BMW aircraft engine production. When units of the US 7th Army liberated the camp on 30 April 1945 — the same day as the main Dachau camp — several thousand inmates were still being held there, many of them Jewish. The 42nd Infantry Division (“Rainbow”), 45th Infantry Division (“Thunderbird”) and 20th Armored Division of the US 7th Army, officially recognized as “Liberating Units”, led the liberation of the Dachau complex. The image belongs to the same sequence as the previous one and shows the faces of the liberated in another frame variation. The film documentation of this moment was published worldwide after the end of the war.

Resolution 5740×4315 (24,9 MP)
File format TIFF, 16-bit
Year taken 1945
Location KZ München-Allach (Außenlager KZ Dachau), Allach, München, Bayern
Collection Standbild aus NARA-Filmsequenz
Source archive NARA
Photographer US Army Signal Corps
Rights © Bleek/zb Media