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Prisoners used to produce plasma with typhus antibodies [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Survivors who had been injected with typhus to produce antibodies. They are lying on beds and covered with a blanket. Under each bed is a pair of slippers. See 06060100PHBU00WILEDE006 for the caption on the reverse of the original…
Pile of human remains [Buchenwald]
Content Note: A pile of human remains in front of a wooden fence. A man enters from the right walking. Numbered 16 on the reverse.
Nazi souvenirs from Buchenwald (human remains)
Content Note: Caption from a separate page: "Exhibit of souvenirs made up by the Nazis at Buchenwald, seized by Gen. Patton's Third Army. German civilians are brought from town to gaze upon shrunken human heads, left, parts of organs of victims who…
Major Kenneth Bowers interview
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Major Bowers served with the 91st Squadron, 439th Group and, during the last two months of the war, with the 19th Tactical Air Command in the 3rd Army and witnessed the liberation of Buchenwald. …
Loaded carts [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Several carts loaded with luggage and other bundles near the edge of a forest. Several horses graze in front of them. A boy stands near the camera on the lefthand side and a liberator walks toward the camera on the righthand side. …
Liberators view a demonstration of torture at Buchenwald
Content Note: Liberators listen while a survivor explains how prisoners were beaten. A dummy dressed in a prisoner's uniform is used in the demonstration. Caption below the photograph reads "Buchenwald." Numbered 111 on the reverse.
Liberators stand near corpses of prisoners stacked next to a building under two wreaths [Buchenwald]
Content Note: The corpses are stacked three deep. Most are naked and emaciated. Numbered 108 On the reverse.
Liberators at the entrance to Buchenwald
Content Note: Supplies are piled in the foreground to the left. A jeep and ambulance are parked in the foreground to the right.
Liberator photographing corpses of prisoners [Buchenwald]
Content Note: A soldier on the lefthand side stands on a cart to take a photograph of a large pile of corpses of prisoners. Other liberators and survivors are visible in the background. The corpses are near several long, low buildings. Numbered 96…
Leon J. Freedman interview
Content Note: Transcript of an oral history interview. Freedman served with the Company C, 304th [Infantry Regiment], 76th [Infantry] Division and witnessed the liberation of Buchenwald. Location of interview: Washington, DC (International…