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"They had been dead about a week. You can imagine how they smelled." [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Title from writing on reverse. Naked, emaciated corpses of prisoners piled in a hut and covered with lime. Numbered 120 on the reverse.
"Ready for bural [sic]" [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Title from writing on reverse. Two rows of prisoner corpses being prepared for burial. Some corpses are clothed while others are naked. Liberators stand side-by-side around the corpses. One liberator squats down near a corpse. …
"German guard at front gate" [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Title from writing on reverse. Additional writing on reverse: "Dark spots, bullet holes." Liberators stand and walk behind the corpse of the guard. Numbered 117 on the reverse.
"Partely [sic] disected [sic]" prisoner corpse [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Title from writing on reverse. Additional writing on reverse: "They left so fast they left the lights on." Naked, emaciated corpse of prisoner on a table with two large lights over it. Numbered 112 on the reverse.
"A few thousand hanged here" [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Title from writing on reverse. Additional writing on reverse: "Used wire, not rope." Liberator looks up at a scaffold. Numbered 111 on reverse.
"A bed of ashes consisting of human bones" [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Title from writing on reverse. Charred human remains burned on railroad tracks. Numbered 110 on reverse.
"A grave with thousands in it" [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Title from writing on reverse. Numbered 109 on the reverse.
Corpses of prisoners loaded in a truck bed [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Corpses loaded in the truck with blankets covering them. One corpse remains on the ground. Numbered 106 on the reverse.
General Patton standing in his jeep addressing the assembled American troops [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Writing on reverse: "This is when he told us to kill all the SOB [sic], not to capture a one of the bastards." Another jeep is parked in front of the one Patton is standing in. A barrack is visible in the background. Numbered 113 on…
General Eisenhower in a jeep [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Close-up of General Eisenhower in a jeep during his visit to Ohrdruf. A barrack is visible in the background. Numbered 104 on the reverse.