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- Collection: Photographs
General Eisenhower listens as a survivor describes atrocities committed by Germans at the camp [Ohrdruf]Content Note: Caption text from separate sheet: "Standing beside a well-used Gallow, Gen. Eisenhower listens while occupants of a former German…
General Eisenhower views prisoner corpses at OhrdrufContent Note: Caption text from separate sheet: "Eisenhower walks around a cluster of corpses representing the remains of many of the inmates at the…
General Eisenhower watches survivors demonstrate how they were tortured [Ohrdruf]Content Note: Caption text from separate sheet: "Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, watches grimly while occupants of a German…
General Patton and American troops during visit to OhrdrufContent Note: Writing on reverse: "Walker. Man in T. coat & dress cap--Life reporter." Numbered 12 on the reverse. [Walker was the XX Corps…
General Patton standing in his jeep addressing the assembled American troops [Ohrdruf]Content Note: Writing on reverse: "This is when he told us to kill all the SOB [sic], not to capture a one of the bastards." Another jeep is parked…
Generals Eisenhower and Patton inspect the charred remains of prisoner corpses burned on a section of railroad track in the camp [Ohrdruf]Content Note: General Eisenhower, General Bradley, and other American troops inspect charred human remains in a pile including railroad tracks. …
Generals Eisenhower, Bradley and Patton at OhrdrufContent Note: Writing on reverse: "Bradley behine [sic] Ike. Patton following." Eisenhower, Bradley and Patton walk with American troops past a…
Generals Eisenhower, Patton and Bradley at OhrdrufContent Note: Generals Eisenhower, Patton and Bradley and XX Corps Commander Walker stand in a circle with other Army officers in front of Barrack 3. …
German civilians dig graves for victims of the mass burnings at GardelegenContent Note: Writing on reverse: "Plain wooden crosses are stacked on the ground while German civilians dig graves for victims of the mass burnings…
German civilians go to bury victims, supervised by the Ninth Army [Gardelegen]Content Note: Writing on reverse: "The victims were tossed into mass grave; the civilians dug individual graves and reburied each victim." German…