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Thousands of wedding rings were found by 1st U.S. Army in a cave adjoining the Buchenwald concentration camp, near Weimar, Germany, May 1945. German SS guards removed them from the dead bodies of their victims in order to salvage the gold. (AP Photo/US Army Signal Corps)

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Minimum price 50PLN

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created date 1945-05-01

credit ASSOCIATED PRESS/East News

source Associated Press

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original transmission reference AP4505010266

weight 1,07MB

size 23cm x 20cm by 300dpi

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