When the Germans murdered people at the death camps during the Holocaust, they were careful to take from them anything of value, even to the point of pulling out gold teeth. This picture shows a box of wedding rings found by the American troops when they were moving through Europe in May, 1945.
Found via the National Archives’ Today’s Document Blog.
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