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  • Tags: Ohrdruf (Concentration camp)

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Content Note: Clothed corpses of executed prisoners lie in the foreground. Liberators walk and stand behind them. On the lefthand side, a small group of liberators talk to some survivors, one of whom gestures to the right. A barrack is visible in…

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Content Note: Military vehicles in a large, muddy field. A man stands behind a trailer attached to a truck. The trailer appears to contain prisoner corpses. In the background, there is another truck. Numbered 58 on the reverse.

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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. …

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Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Schley served as a battalion surgeon and witnessed the liberation of Ohrdruf. Later, he toured Mauthausen and Gusen. Location of interview: Savannah, Georgia.

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Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. Liberators examine corpses of executed prisoners scattered on the ground near the barracks. The corpses are clothed in prisoner uniforms. Numbered 67 on the reverse.

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Content Note: Text on reverse: "Be sure and keep these pictures, honey. These I taken [sic] myself." A naked, emaciated corpse lies in the center foreground. Behind the corpse, liberators walk between and behind the other corpses scattered on the…

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Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. Corpses of executed prisoners lying on the ground near the barracks. All are clothed in prisoner uniforms. A liberator is running away from the camera in the upper left corner (toward a barrack.) …

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Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. Liberators observe and examine corpses of executed prisoners near barrack 7. Numbered 38 on the reverse.

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Content Note: Title from writing on reverse. Additional writing on reverse: "They left so fast they left the lights on." Naked, emaciated corpse of prisoner on a table with two large lights over it. Numbered 112 on the reverse.

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Content Note: Title from writing on reverse. Naked, emaciated corpses of prisoners piled in a hut and covered with lime. Numbered 120 on the reverse.
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