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"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…
"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…
"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.…
"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…
"They were laying all over the place like this" [Ohrdruf]Content Note: Title from writing on reverse. Corpses of executed prisoners lie on the ground near the barracks. Liberators walk between the corpses…
"This is where they lived." [Ohrdruf]Content Note: Title from writing on reverse. Additional writing on reverse: "If you look at Life Magazine 7 Mar '45 you can see more. Double wire…
Army troops at OhrdrufContent Note: Two Army jeeps in front of a large group of American troops during Eisenhower's visit to Ohrdruf. A soldier on the lefthand side…
Corpse of an executed prisoner [Ohrdruf]Content Note: Three corpses of prisoners executed at Ohrdruf. Numbered 70 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.
Fred Mercer interviewContent Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Mercer served with the 'B' Company, 69th Signal Battalion, 20th Corps of the 3rd Army and witnessed…