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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.
Barracks for Hungarian women at Stalag II-B in Duderstadt
Content Note: Caption text from a separate page: "Barracks for Hungarian women are placed next to a Nazi munitions factory in captured Duderstadt in direct violation of the rules of warfare and treatment of prisoners established by the Geneva…
Bridge "built by A Company 1270th Engineer Combat Battalion and 678 Engineer LE Company. "
Content Note: Caption from writing on reverse of photograph. Additional caption text: "Nuremberg, Germany, April 27, 1945. Built By A Company 1270th Engr Combat Battalion and 678 Engineer LE Company. Be Gay Now, You GI Slave, Your CBI Bound, Use…
Bunker at the firing range used during training in England
Content Note: Soldiers used Allied and German weapons to learn to distinguish the weapons used by the enemy. Three soldiers stand on top of the hill overlooking the bunker.
Caption for "A living deadman" [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Text: "A living deadman. He won't recover! A day later and some 20,000 men would have been liquidated had it not been for Patton's dough [boys]. Not for Publication." The photo was stamped "passed" by the Army Examiner. Numbered 24…
Caption for "Corpses of prisoners near the crematorium oven" [Buchenwald]
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…
Caption for "Dead outside barracks" [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Text: "Nazis show their value for Human Life at Weimar, Germany. At Camp Buchenwald this is a nights claim for one barrack or block. Not for publication." The photo was stamped "passed" by the Army Examiner. Numbered 22 on the…
Caption for "Prisoners used to produce plasma with typhus antibodies" [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Text: "No, the Nazis wasn't quite insane for instance some men where [sic] allowed to live because they were continually being injected with typhus to make an immunity plasma for Berlin of course too much of a donation often caused…
Caption for "The crematorium" [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Text: "The Civilian is a Jew--Polished apples for 6 yrs at Weimar Concentration Camp--Who knows what price he's paid for his life, or what deeds he's done. 'We need a place to burn, our prisoners will build it and run it; we will…
Captured German guards [Bergen-Belsen]
Content Note: In the foreground, men wearing military uniforms stand in two rows with their backs to the camera. In front of them men in uniform interact. In the background, a truck, a barrack, and some people standing and sitting in a field are…