Wehrmacht soldiers stand near the corpses of Jewish civilians killed in Tarnopol city (from 1944 is Ternopil), who lie near the building of the District Court. The Eastern Front of the Germany during the World War II in Europe.
After the Wehrmacht soldiers entered the city in Tarnopolsky prison, the bodies of prisoners executed by the NKVD troops before the retreat of the Red Army, including German prisoners of war, were found. After that, a pogrom began in Tarnopol, the victims of which were many Soviet Jews.
Source of the corpses of Jewish photo information:
1. Massacre in Ternopil
Location: Tarnopol, Ukraine, USSR
Time of photo taken: July 1941