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Townspeople digging individual graves for the corpses of prisoners [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Male civilians use shovels and picks to dig graves. Liberators stand over them with rifles slung over their shoulders, observing their work. Numbered 74 on the reverse.
A naked, emaciated prisoner corpse near the corpses of executed prisoners [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: The corpse of a male prisoner who had died prior to the evacuation (and had been placed in a hut with other corpses and covered with lime) lies face down near the corpses of prisoners executed when Ohrdruf was evacuated. Liberators…
Liberators observe corpses of prisoners and talk with survivors [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Clothed corpses of executed prisoners lie in the foreground. Liberators walk and stand behind them. On the lefthand side, a small group of liberators talk to some survivors, one of whom gestures to the right. A barrack is visible in…
Military trucks moving corpses of prisoners [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Military vehicles in a large, muddy field. A man stands behind a trailer attached to a truck. The trailer appears to contain prisoner corpses. In the background, there is another truck. Numbered 58 on the reverse.
Area with corpses of executed prisoners after most have been removed for burial [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Corpses of executed prisoners lying in an open area near some barracks. Only a small number remain compared with other photographs of the same area. A stretcher has been left near the corpses. The prisoners wear prison uniforms. …
"Something happened here" [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. Liberators examine corpses of executed prisoners scattered on the ground near the barracks. The corpses are clothed in prisoner uniforms. Numbered 67 on the reverse.
Liberators examine corpses of prisoners [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Text on reverse: "Be sure and keep these pictures, honey. These I taken [sic] myself." A naked, emaciated corpse lies in the center foreground. Behind the corpse, liberators walk between and behind the other corpses scattered on the…
"Some of these were starved to death, some crippled, all shot in the back." [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. Corpses of executed prisoners lying on the ground near the barracks. All are clothed in prisoner uniforms. A liberator is running away from the camera in the upper left corner (toward a barrack.) …
"Some camp between Frankfort and Limbach" [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. Liberators observe and examine corpses of executed prisoners near barrack 7. Numbered 38 on the reverse.
"They had been dead about a week. You can imagine how they smelled." [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Title from writing on reverse. Naked, emaciated corpses of prisoners piled in a hut and covered with lime. Numbered 120 on the reverse.