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Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Bohm served with the 104th Infantry Division as a technical corporal and witnessed the liberation of Nordhausen. Location of interview: Atlanta, Georgia.

Content Note: Transcript of a video recording. Izac was a member of the Naval Affairs Committee in 1945. He served on the congressional committee requested by General Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1945 to visit several concentration camps shortly after…

Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Schifter served with the T Force (Intelligence Unit) of the 12th Army and then was attached to the 1st Infantry Division. He witnessed the liberation of Camp Dora. Later, Schifter was a member of the…

Content Note: Caption from a separate page: "American congressmen investigating German atrocities walk through the infamous camp Dora concentration camp at Nordhausen, Germany." The delegation and U. S. Army officials walk down a road through the…

Content Note: Title from writing on reverse. Additional caption text: "German civilians were drafted to help in removing and burying the dead." Two long, parallel trenches with the corpses of prisoners laid side-by-side down their length. Between…

Content Note: Caption from a separate page: "Nordhausen. A Ninth Air Force photographer accompanying advance elements of Armor and Infantry made this picture at the slave labor camp near Nordhausen." Prisoner corpses laid out in long rows outdoors.…

Content Note: Caption from a separate page: "Bodies of slave laborers removed by German civilians under supervision of U. S. soldiers." Four German civilians lift a corpse by its arms and legs and place it on a stretcher. In the background, long…

Content Note: Caption from a separate page: "German civilians remove bodies. Ninth Air Force photo." Corpses of prisoners laid in long rows. Liberators supervise German civilians who place the corpses on stretchers and carry them away. Ninth Air…

Content Note: Caption from a separate page: "German civilians remove the bodies of slave workers from the labor camp near Nordhausen, as U. S. soldiers supervise the grisly work. Hundreds of workers were systematically starved to death by the German…

Content Note: Caption from a separate page: "American Congressmen who came to Europe to see an underground V-bomb factory at Nordhausen, Germany. Here, in a forest of V-2 tail assemblies are (L-R) Sen. Leverett Saltonstall (R-Mass); Maj. H. A.…