German prisoners forced to exhume bodies of slave laborers.

German prisoners forced to exhume bodies of slave laborers. German prisoners-of-war wade in a put of mud to exhume the bodies of 800 murdered slave laborers, victims of SS troopers' brutality, five miles west of Tittling near Passau, Germany, May 15, 1945. The Germans were forced by American military authorities occupying the area to dig out the bodies with their hands, forbidding the use of picks of shovels that might further mutilate the dead. The victims were Poles, Slavs, Russians, Frenchmen and Italians who were killed by their German guards when they were unable to complete a forced march from Buchenwald concentration camp to another prison. They will be given decent burial.