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  • Tags: Ohrdruf (Concentration camp)

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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. …

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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.

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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.

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Content Note: Title from writing on reverse. Charred human remains burned on railroad tracks. Numbered 110 on reverse.

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Content Note: Title from writing on reverse. Numbered 109 on the reverse.

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Content Note: Corpses loaded in the truck with blankets covering them. One corpse remains on the ground. Numbered 106 on the reverse.

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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…

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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.

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Content Note: Title from writing on reverse. Fred Mercer poses between two Army jeeps. A large group of American troops are gathered behind the jeeps. Numbered 116 on the reverse.

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Content Note: Title from writing on reverse. Charred remains of three prisoners burned on a section of railroad track. Numbered 115 on the reverse.
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