German prisoners forced to exhume bodies of slave laborers.

German prisoners forced to exhume bodies of slave laborers. The body of a slave laborer murdered with 800 others by German SS troops is carried from a mass grave by German prisoners-of-war five miles west of Tittling near Passau, Germany. The German prisoners were ordered by American military authorities occupying the area to exhume and give decent burial to the 800 workers, who were slain by the SS troopers when they were unable to complete a forced march from Buchenwald concentration camp to another prison. The dead included Poles, Slavs, Russians, Frenchmen and Italians. The German prisoners were forbidden to use picks, shovels or instruments to dig out the bodies in an effort to prevent further mutilation.