Caption for "Corpses of prisoners near the crematorium oven" [Buchenwald]

Caption for "Corpses of prisoners near the crematorium oven" [Buchenwald]

Wile, Dennis E. (Donor)

Content Note: Text: " 'If you starve them, when they die you have less to burn, and the more you burn them more healthy your workmen by replacement.' This is just another pile of dead people, America! The Nazis have many more at this place--this is typical on a small scale--Burn!-- 6,000, one day Jew!--Burn--Dead men." The photo was stamped "passed" by the Army Examiner. Numbered 3 on the reverse. Originally "picture B"

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Buchenwald (Concentration camp)

Wile, Dennis E.

1 silver gelatin print Image size: 6 7/16" x 4 7/16"; Paper size: 6 15/16" x 4 15/16" bent, stained, tape, scratches, moisture wrinkling. Reverse of photo: paper label pasted on then partially torn off, glue with fibers adhered to it, writing.

4 - 0 - 1945

Emory University

Encoded as part of the SAGE Digital Archive Project: A Collaborative Project between the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, 1997-2000.

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Negative. TIFF image (400 dpi). JPG image (72 dpi).

JPG (72 dpi); 58 KB Digital image created as part of SAGE project, 1998.