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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
"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…
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…
"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…
"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…
"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…