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"The gallows" [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Title from a caption on the reverse. A small group of liberators studies a scaffold near the barracks. Another group of liberators congregates behind them. Numbered 29 on the reverse.
"Crematory" [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. A group of liberators file in a door to the crematory. All that is visible of the building is the door and the lower half of a window. Numbered 30 on the reverse.
"Bodies sprinkled with lime awaiting crematorium" [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. A pile of corpses of prisoners in a room. They appear to be unclothed. Numbered 32 on the reverse.
"Electric fence around camp" [Ohdruf]
Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. View along the fence from inside the camp. A watchtower is visible outside the fence. Numbered 33 on the reverse.
"Each of these dead had a bullet hole in her or her [sic] head" [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. Corpses of executed prisoners lying on the ground. All are dressed in prisoner uniforms. Date is given on reverse as "April, May, 1945". Numbered 34 on the reverse.
Liberators examine corpses of prisoners [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Liberators examine corpses of executed prisoners scattered on the ground near barracks. The corpses are clothed in prisoner uniforms. Numbered 71 on the reverse. Photograph was printed in June 1979.
Liberators observe corpses of prisoners laid out for burial [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Several liberators observe two rows of prisoner corpses. Each corpse has a white stake laid on his chest. What appear to be white cloths above the second row of corpses' heads may be corpses already wrapped for burial. Numbered 16 on…
Two corpses of prisoners laid out for burial [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Two corpses of male prisoners laid on their backs with white stakes laid on top of them. Above their heads are two folded, white cloths. What appear to be the feet of prisoners already shrouded for burial are visible at the top of the…
Townspeople burying the corpses of prisoners (from a distance) [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: On the left hand side of the photo a row of open, individual graves is visible. The further graves have white stakes driven into the ground above them. In the center of the photo in the distance, townspeople are digging. Numbered 21…
"Gens. Patton and Eisenhower" [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Title from writing on reverse. General Eisenhower (2nd from right) and General Patton (3rd from right) talk with other liberators. A reporter for Life magazine is taking notes. Numbered 41 on the reverse.