After dressing in clean clothes, a woman inmate is dusted with DDT powder to kill the lice which spread typhus. The dusting is done by other former camp inmates (many of whom were trained nurses before being interned) under the supervision of the Royal Army Medical Corps.(IWM Caption) Surviving women in the Entlausung (Block 314)
Photograph/Document Dated: 01 - 04 May 1945
Source: Imperial War Museum (BU 5467)
Image Added: 29/11/2011
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