Mobile Bath Unit established allowing prisoners to shower in the Großes Frauenlager. Original caption reads as follows: It's Good To Be Clean. - Former occupants at the German horror camp in Belsen, these women take their first bath for three years in a hot shower set up by the British who liberated the camp. Note emaciated condition of these ex - prisoners who were victims of the Nazi starvation diet.
Photograph/Document Dated: 03 May 1945
Source: Imperial War Museum (BU4237)
Image Added: 06/03/2011
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