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"U.S. legislators... hear former prisoner demonstrate how victims were... clubbed to death" [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Title from caption on a separate page. Additional caption text: "U.S. legislators in Germany to witness Nazi concentration camp horrors at Buchenwald hear former prisoner demonstrate how victims were hung on hooks and then clubbed to…
"Representative Izac looks at skulls and bodies... in an incinerator" [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Title from caption on a separate page. Additional caption text: "Rep. Izac looks at skulls and bodies of prisoners in an incinerator at the infamous Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp near Weimar. Rep. Izac is a member of a…
"Bones and human remains in a giant corpse incinerator" [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Title from caption on a separate page. Additional caption text: "Barkley stooping in foreground. Izac, Vorys, Short, Brooks, Wherry [stand behind him]". Only the doors of the incinerators are visible. Liberators and military…
Sign on the wall of the crematorium at Buchenwald
Content Note: Caption from a separate page: "This sign is on the wall of the furnace room at Buchenwald camp four miles outside Weimar, Germany where the bodies of starved and beaten victims of the Nazis were cremated after death freed them from a…
Congressional committee talks to survivors hospitalized at Buchenwald
Content Note: Caption from a separate page: "Members of Congressional committee talk to some of the former prisoners of Buchenwald now hospitalized at the camp. Identifiable in the picture are Brooks; Brig. Gen. Frank R. Allen, SHAEF Public…
Congressional Committee talks to child survivors [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Caption from a separate page: "Talking to children inmates: Richards, Wherry, Barkley, Brooks, Mott, Izac, Thomason, Short, Vorys." The children are wearing prisoner uniforms and hold musical instruments. The congressional delegation…
Nazi souvenirs from Buchenwald (human remains)
Content Note: Caption from a separate page: "Exhibit of souvenirs made up by the Nazis at Buchenwald, seized by Gen. Patton's Third Army. German civilians are brought from town to gaze upon shrunken human heads, left, parts of organs of victims who…
Three young survivors standing behind a barbed wire fence [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Caption from a separate page: "Third Army exposes horror of Buchenwald camp. Liberated inmates of Buchenwald, injured and emaciated, are pictured behind barbed wire fence enclosing the area. Many mature prisoners looked like youths…
Two survivors lying on the ground behind a barbed-wire fence [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Caption from a separate page: "Two exhausted prisoners are stretched out on the bare ground behind the barbed wire fencing. They are too weak to realize their newly-found freedom." Both survivors wear prison uniforms. Only one is…
"Example of what happened to inmates at Buchenwald. Literally skin and bones."
Content Note: Title from caption on a separate page. Male survivor standing with a checkered cloth wrapped around him. His legs and face are emaciated. A camp building is visible in the background. Numbered 50 on the reverse (Izac 18)