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Avalanche hits Heilgenblut,Austria
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Avalanche hits Heilgenblut,Austria

After an avalanche hit the village of Heiligenblut,    
Austria,survivors,locals and tourists sit stunned      
in a bare reception center.                            
Heiligenblut,1950
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After an avalanche hit the village of Heiligenblut, Austria,survivors,locals...

After an avalanche hit the Austrian village of Heiligenblut, survivors, locals and tourists sit stunned in a bare reception center.                 
Heiligenblut, 1950
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After an avalanche hit the Austrian village of Heiligenblut, survivors, locals a...

Avalanche in the Austrian Alps: a ski vacation of a school trip from Germany ends in tragedy when an excursion into the snowy Dachstein-region in Upper-Austria cost the lives of 16 pupils. Parents of the missing children wait for news in a local pub.
1954
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Avalanche in the Austrian Alps: a ski vacation of a school trip from Germany end...

Avalanche in the Austrian Alps: a ski vacation of a school trip from Germany ends in tragedy when an excursion into the snowy Dachstein-region in Upper-Austria cost the lives of 16 pupils.  
Austrian helpers and parents wait for a search group to return. Dachstein, 1954
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Avalanche in the Austrian Alps: a ski vacation of a school trip from Germany end...

Avalanche in the Austrian Alps: a ski vacation of a school trip from Germany ends in tragedy when an excursion into the snowy Dachstein-region in Upper-Austria cost the lives of 16 pupils.  
An Austrian gendarme pulls on his boots for another climb towards the region where the avalanche came down.
Dachstein,1954
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Avalanche in the Austrian Alps: a ski vacation of a school trip from Germany end...

Avalanche in the Austrian Alps: a ski vacation of a school trip from Germany ends in tragedy when an excursion into the snowy Dachstein-region in Upper-Austria cost the lives of 16 pupils. 
Search group and parents approach the site of the avalanche. Dachstein, 1954
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Avalanche in the Austrian Alps: a ski vacation of a school trip from Germany end...

Avalanche in the Austrian Alps:ski vacation of a       
school class from Germany ends in tragedy and death.   
Waiting for news.Hope fades;in the end the disaster    
caused the death of 16 youngsters.Heinrich Gleissner,  
Governor of Upper Austria(right)at the site.1954
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Avalanche in the Austrian Alps:ski vacation of a school class from German...

Avalanche in the Austrian Alps:The ski vacation of a   
school class from Germany ends in tragedy and death.   
Despite fog and snow,mountain guides and local police  
seached the Dachstein-Mountain for the missing children
An exhausted gendarme returns from his search.1954.
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Avalanche in the Austrian Alps:The ski vacation of a school class from German...

Avalanche in the Austrian Alps:ski vacation of a       
school class from Germany ends in tragedy and death.   
A helper has found a bag with a piece of bread on      
the site of the group's first buvouak.Despite all      
efforts,16 children could not be saved.
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Avalanche in the Austrian Alps:ski vacation of a school class from German...

Avalanche in the Austrian Alps:The ski vacation of a   
school class from Germany ends in tragedy and death.   
Despite fog and snow,mountain guides and local police  
start out for another day of searching the Dachstein-  
Mountain for the missing children.Austrian Alps,1954.
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Avalanche in the Austrian Alps:The ski vacation of a school class from German...

Avalanche in the Austrian Alps:The ski vacation of a   
school class from Germany ends in tragedy and death.   
Despite fog and snow,mountain guides and local police  
start out for another day of searching for the         
children.
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Avalanche in the Austrian Alps:The ski vacation of a school class from German...