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Content Note: Caption from a separate page: "Two exhausted prisoners are stretched out on the bare ground behind the barbed wire fencing. They are too weak to realize their newly-found freedom." Both survivors wear prison uniforms. Only one is…

Content Note: Caption from a separate page: "Third Army exposes horror of Buchenwald camp. Liberated inmates of Buchenwald, injured and emaciated, are pictured behind barbed wire fence enclosing the area. Many mature prisoners looked like youths…

Content Note: Caption from a separate page: "This sign is on the wall of the furnace room at Buchenwald camp four miles outside Weimar, Germany where the bodies of starved and beaten victims of the Nazis were cremated after death freed them from a…

Content Note: Caption from a separate page: "Rep. John Vorys (R), a member of the congressional group investigating German POW atrocities, as he inspects one of the rooms filled with bodies. Maj. Gen. Persons (L) is conducting the congressmen on…

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…

Content Note: Caption from a separate page: "Members of Congressional party now investigating Nazi POW atrocities in Germany view the spot where POWs were shot. Sen. Brooks points to spot saturated with blood at this camp at Dachau. With him are…

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: "This heap of ashes and bones represents only one day's killing of prisoners by SS Troops. Every day a similar pile of ashes was brought out in the courtyard of the camp. Weimar, Germany." Numbered 53 on…

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: "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…