German prisoners forced to exhume bodies of slave laborers.

German prisoners forced to exhume bodies of slave laborers. German prisoners-of-war carry the body of a slave laborer which they were forced to exhume from a mass grave in which 800 slave laborers were buried five miles west of Tittling near Passau, Germany. The slave laborers were murdered by German SS troops when they were unable to complete a forced march from Buchenwald concentration camp to another prison. The dead included Poles, Slavs, Russians, Frenchmen, and Italians. The German prisoners who were forced by American military authorities occupying the area to exhume and give decent burial to the bodies were not allowed to use picks or shovels in an effort to prevent further mutilation of the bodies.