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Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Scott served with the 183rd Engineer Combat Battalion of the 3rd Army and witnessed the liberation of Buchenwald. Location of interview: Atlanta, Georgia. The case file also includes a publication…

Content Note: Prisoners waiting at camp in Moosburg for liberating armies to reach them. Three prisoners lie on the ground.

Content Note: Six prisoners pose in the air raid ditch they were digging to prepare in case there was a battle when the liberating forces arrived.

Content Note: Prisoners standing in orderly groups by barrack for roll call (or Appell) on the sports field. Barracks are visible in the background. Two barbed-wire fences are visible in the foreground.

Content Note: Large room equipped with several large sinks in which prisoners are washing up.

Content Note: Several prisoners work at sewing machines. A prisoner with a measuring tape around his neck sits on a table. Another prisoner inspects clothes on hangers.

Content Note: Group portrait of the senior officers for the South Compound.

Content Note: Prisoner recreational activities. Group portrait of the prisoner baseball team that won the league championship in South Compound.

Content Note: Men pose with large containers of soup in a cart in front of a building.

Content Note: Stack of several Red Cross Parcels in wooden boxes addressed to prisoners.