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Doors painted with warning "Vorsicht! Gas! Lebensgefahr! Nicht öffnen!" [Dachau]
Content Note: Three doors to gas chamber in the Dachau concentration camp. Two of the doors are painted with a skull and crossbones and a warning message. Numbered 83 on the reverse. See also photo received from Anti-Defamation League (numbered 42…
An open door with "BRAUSEBAD" (showers) painted over it [Dachau]
Content Note: Photo depicts an open door leading into a building. "BRAUSEBAD" (showers) is painted over the door frame. Numbered 82 on the reverse. See also 06080100PHDA00BERRHO007.
"Russian slave laborer w/hands tied behind back forced into kneeling position over a slit trench and shot in the head" [Dachau]
Content Note: Title from caption on reverse. Kneeling man slumped forward over an open grate in the ground (view from behind him.) Numbered 81 on the reverse.
Survivors in front of a barrack at Ebensee
Content Note: The survivors are standing and walking around in front of the barrack. The are clothed. Numbered 13 on the reverse.
Two survivors and a liberator in front of a barbed wire fence at Ebensee
Content Note: Two clothed, male survivors stand in front of the barbed wire fence. A liberator leans agains a jeep in the background. Numbered 12 on the reverse.
Male survivors of Ebensee pose together near a barbed wire fence
Content Note: Ten survivors stand together in a row. Some are naked, most are emaciated. The barbed wire fence is behind them. Numbered 15 on the reverse.
Liberator looking at the crematorium oven at Ebensee
Content Note: The liberator stands to the side of the oven, facing it. The oven doors are open and a chute slopes down to the floor. Numbered 14 on the reverse.
"Outside the crematory, Dachau"
Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. Additional caption text: " (man in center is Paul Gumz). " Three liberators stand together in front of several large piles of clothing outside a crematorium at the Dachau concentration camp. …
A liberator and another man at a box car filled with corpses of prisoners [Dachau]
Content Note: A liberator stands in front of a box car filled with corpses of prisoners. He is facing the camera. A man in the foreground walks away from the train car. Numbered 51 (copy 1) on the reverse.
Badly charred corpses of prisoners [Gardelegen Incident]
Content Note: Corpses of prisoners lie in rows in a field in preparation for burial. Numbered 1 on the reverse.