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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 concentration camp tell, through an interpreter, of atrocities committed by Germans operating the camp." …
General Eisenhower views prisoner corpses at Ohrdruf
Content Note: Caption text from separate sheet: "Eisenhower walks around a cluster of corpses representing the remains of many of the inmates at the camp at Gotha, lying where they were slain." Survivors and other Army personnel stand behind 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 concentration camp at Gotha demonstrate how they were tortured by the Nazi sadists operating the camp. …
General Patton and American troops during visit to Ohrdruf
Content Note: Writing on reverse: "Walker. Man in T. coat & dress cap--Life reporter." Numbered 12 on the reverse. [Walker was the XX Corps Commander.]
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 in front of the one Patton is standing in. A barrack is visible in the background. Numbered 113 on…
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. Another pile is visible in the background. In the distance, several military vehicles are visible. …
Generals Eisenhower, Bradley and Patton at Ohrdruf
Content Note: Writing on reverse: "Bradley behine [sic] Ike. Patton following." Eisenhower, Bradley and Patton walk with American troops past a barrack. Numbered 63 on the reverse.
Generals Eisenhower, Patton and Bradley at Ohrdruf
Content Note: Generals Eisenhower, Patton and Bradley and XX Corps Commander Walker stand in a circle with other Army officers in front of Barrack 3. Other Army troops stand behind them. Numbered 65 on the reverse.
German civilians dig graves for victims of the mass burnings at Gardelegen
Content Note: Writing on reverse: "Plain wooden crosses are stacked on the ground while German civilians dig graves for victims of the mass burnings at the Gardelegen Camp on the Elbe River. The civilians are guarded by the troops of the Ninth U. S.…
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 citizens carrying shovels walk down a dirt road escorted by troops from the Ninth Army. Town buildings…