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"Crematory" [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. A group of liberators file in a door to the crematory. All that is visible of the building is the door and the lower half of a window. Numbered 30 on the reverse.
"Bodies sprinkled with lime awaiting crematorium" [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. A pile of corpses of prisoners in a room. They appear to be unclothed. Numbered 32 on the reverse.
"Electric fence around camp" [Ohdruf]
Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. View along the fence from inside the camp. A watchtower is visible outside the fence. Numbered 33 on the reverse.
"Each of these dead had a bullet hole in her or her [sic] head" [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. Corpses of executed prisoners lying on the ground. All are dressed in prisoner uniforms. Date is given on reverse as "April, May, 1945". Numbered 34 on the reverse.
Liberators examine corpses of prisoners [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Liberators examine corpses of executed prisoners scattered on the ground near barracks. The corpses are clothed in prisoner uniforms. Numbered 71 on the reverse. Photograph was printed in June 1979.
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 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…
Liberators observe corpses of prisoners laid out for burial [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Several liberators observe two rows of prisoner corpses. Each corpse has a white stake laid on his chest. What appear to be white cloths above the second row of corpses' heads may be corpses already wrapped for burial. Numbered 16 on…
Two corpses of prisoners laid out for burial [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Two corpses of male prisoners laid on their backs with white stakes laid on top of them. Above their heads are two folded, white cloths. What appear to be the feet of prisoners already shrouded for burial are visible at the top of the…