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"A section of the hospital cribs" [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Title from caption on a separate page. Additional caption text: "The patients in the upper cribs were unable to go to the latrine, making sanitation in this section intolerable." A section of bunks four levels high is visible between…
"Bodies awaiting burial" [Nordhausen]
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…
"Bodies of 200 Russian POWs, most of whom died of starvation in Hemer, Germany."
Content Note: Title from caption on a separate page. Additional caption text: "Out of a total of 22,000, about 100 died per day." Several rows of clothed corpses lie in a grassy field. Numbered 9 on the reverse (Izac 80)
"Bones and human remains in a giant corpse incinerator" [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Title from caption on a separate page. Additional caption text: "Barkley stooping in foreground. Izac, Vorys, Short, Brooks, Wherry [stand behind him]". Only the doors of the incinerators are visible. Liberators and military…
"Congressional committee interview an American soldier recently released from a German POW camp"
Content Note: Title from caption on a separate page. Additional caption text: "Reims, France. L-R: T/Sgt. Clinton E. Hahn; Richards; Wherry; Thomason; Barkley; Brooks; Brig. Gen. Charles O. Thrasher, CG Oise Section, France." The congressmen stand…
"Congressional committee viewed operation of the Port of Antwerp, Belgium"
Content Note: Title from caption on a separate page. Additional caption text: "Being given an explanation of the Port's activities by Col. Doswell Gullatt, Port Commander. Seated in foreground at end of table are Short, Vorys. Behind the table…
"Example of what happened to inmates at Buchenwald. Literally skin and bones."
Content Note: Title from caption on a separate page. Male survivor standing with a checkered cloth wrapped around him. His legs and face are emaciated. A camp building is visible in the background. Numbered 50 on the reverse (Izac 18)
"General Eisenhower greets congressmen at his advance headquarters"
Content Note: Title from caption on a separate page. Additional caption text: "They were flown from the U.S. to witness evidence of Nazi atrocities at the General's invitation. L-R: Izac, Saltonstall, Vorys, Mott, Barkley, Brooks, Short, Thomason,…
"Interviewing a British soldier on the treatment he received while a POW in Germany"
Content Note: Title from caption on a separate page. Additional caption text: "Reims, France. Interviewing a British soldier on the treatment he received while a POW in Germany are L-R: Izac, Richards, Thomason, Wherry, Short, Vorys, Barkley,…
"Interviewing former political prisoner at a Nazi concentration camp in German" [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Title from caption on a separate page. Congressional committee listens to a former political prisoner at a Nazi concentration camp. Persons visible left to right: Sen. Wherry, Rep Izac, Sen Barkley, Sen Brooks, Rep Richards, and Rep…