Raising the US Flag at the Gate of the Allach Subcamp, 30 April 1945
US soldiers raise the Stars and Stripes at the gate of the Allach concentration camp subcamp; a large crowd of liberated prisoners has gathered.
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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 shows the iconic raising of the US flag at the camp gate — a symbolic gesture marking the camp’s transition to Allied control and the end of SS rule. A large group of liberated prisoners has gathered in front of the gate.
