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Colonel Carroll J. Williams interview
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…
General Eisenhower views prisoner corpses at Ohrdruf
Content Note: Caption text from separate sheet: "Eisenhower walks around a cluster of corpses representing the remains of many of the inmates at the camp at Gotha, lying where they were slain." Survivors and other Army personnel stand behind the…
General Eisenhower listens as a survivor describes atrocities committed by Germans at the camp [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Caption text from separate sheet: "Standing beside a well-used Gallow, Gen. Eisenhower listens while occupants of a former German concentration camp tell, through an interpreter, of atrocities committed by Germans operating the camp." …
General Eisenhower watches survivors demonstrate how they were tortured [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Caption text from separate sheet: "Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, watches grimly while occupants of a German concentration camp at Gotha demonstrate how they were tortured by the Nazi sadists operating the camp. …
Three liberators pose behind a stack of prisoner corpses [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: The corpses are stacked with either their heads or their feet toward the camera next to a building. They are emaciated, and some are clothed while others are not. Two of the liberators are wearing gloves. Numbered 78 on the reverse.
Leg sticking out of a pit of human remains [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Numbered 79 on the reverse.
Charred remains of corpses of prisoners burned on a section of railroad track in the camp [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Numbered 77 on the reverse.
A scaffold in Ohrdruf
Content Note: A scaffold near the barracks. Three liberators stand behind it, looking at it. Numbered 76 on the reverse.
Townspeople digging individual graves for the corpses of prisoners [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Male civilians use shovels and picks to dig graves. Liberators stand over them with rifles slung over their shoulders, observing their work. Numbered 74 on the reverse.
A naked, emaciated prisoner corpse near the corpses of executed prisoners [Ohrdruf]
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…