Imprisoned slave labourers killed during bombing

It is the 7th of February 1945, the eve of the allied offensive codenamed Operation Veritable. Kleve, which had been subjected to heavy bombing earlier in the war, is bombed again. The Upper Town is severely affected. The civilian population has been largely evacuated. In the town, there are soldiers, members of the Hitler Youth, fire-fighters and many Ukrainian slave labourers. A hundred of them are locked up behind bars in the prison on the Krohnestrasse. They do not survive the attack.