Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Williams served as the Deputy Ordnance Officer of the 5th Corps Headquarters and as the designated Chief Ordnance and Intelligence Officer. He investigated factories at labor camps at Belsen Hohne (in…
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Captain Baker served with Company B, 260th Infantry [Regiment] of the 65th Division of the 3rd Army and witnessed the liberation of Ohrdruf and Mauthausen. Location of interview: Savannah, Georgia.
Content 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 (identified on the reverse as Tom Knopp) poses for the camera. Numbered 114 on the reverse.
Content Note: Corpses of executed prisoners lying in an open area near some barracks. Only a small number remain compared with other photographs of the same area. A stretcher has been left near the corpses. The prisoners wear prison uniforms. …
Content Note: Each corpse has a stake laid on top of it. Beyond the corpses' feet, two rows of corpses wrapped in white cloth are visible. All the bodies are clothed. Liberators stand at the end of the rows (only their legs are visible.) Stamp on…
Content Note: The corpse of a male prisoner who had died prior to the evacuation (and had been placed in a hut with other corpses and covered with lime) lies face down near the corpses of prisoners executed when Ohrdruf was evacuated. Liberators…
Content Note: A liberator walks across a yard in front of a row of barracks. He appears to be holding a camera. There is a scaffold in the right foreground. Numbered 24 on the reverse.