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Henry DeJarnette and Lou Zullinger interview
Content Note: Transcript of a video recording. DeJarnette served with the Company A [division not given] and witnessed the liberation of Dachau. Zullinger was a photographer at the liberation of Ohrdruf. Location of interview: Washington, DC…
"Ohrdruf camp which I would say was more of a slave labor camp than a concentration camp"
Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. Corpses of executed prisoners lying on the ground. All are dressed in prisoner uniforms. A liberator is visible on the far right walking away from the camera. Numbered 35 on the reverse.
Major General George T. Duncan interview
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Duncan served with the 65th Infantry Division and witnessed the liberation of Ohrdruf. Location of interview: Atlanta, Georgia.
"Bodies of displaced persons found in Ordruf concentration camp near Friedrichordi, Germany"
Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. Corpses of executed prisoners lie on the ground. They are clothed in prisoner uniforms and emaciated. One liberator stands in the foreground facing them (back to the camera, visible from the…
"Bodies of displaced persons found in Ordruf concentration camp near Friedrichroda, Germany"
Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. Same scene as Erickson photo 1. Corpses of executed prisoners lie on the ground. They are clothed in prisoner uniforms and emaciated. In the background, a few liberators stand looking at the…
Frank F. Hamburger, Jr., interview
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Hamburger served with Company C, 260th Infantry Regiment, 65th Infantry Division and witnessed the liberation of Ohrdruf. Location of interview: Columbus, Georgia.
A liberator walking through Ohrdruf near barrack 19
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.
"65th Division 250th Medical Detachment" [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. Two liberators stand in the right foreground. Behind a large group of corpses of executed prisoners, all of which are clothed, two men appear to be lifting a coffin onto a trailer behind a jeep. …
"Flogging table" [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. Liberators observe a reenactment of a flogging. A survivor demonstrates how prisoners were flogged. One survivor appears to be filming the event. The flogging table is near barrack 3. Numbered 28…
"Polish political prisoner--said he'd been in camp for 5 years" [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. A male survivor stands (seemingly at attention and smiling) on the steps leading up to a building. A barbed wire fence starts at the steps and stretches away to his right. Numbered 27 on the…