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"Shot by SS just before we got there" [Ohrdruf]Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. A liberator, his rifle slung over his shoulder, squats down to pose with the corpse of a prisoner. …
"Some camp between Frankfort and Limbach" [Ohrdruf]Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. Liberators observe and examine corpses of executed prisoners near barrack 7. Numbered 38 on the…
"Some of these were starved to death, some crippled, all shot in the back." [Ohrdruf]Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. Corpses of executed prisoners lying on the ground near the barracks. All are clothed in prisoner…
"Something happened here" [Ohrdruf]Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. Liberators examine corpses of executed prisoners scattered on the ground near the barracks. The…
"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…
"The hanging or whipping post" [Ohrdruf]Content Note: Title from caption on reverse. A scaffold near barrack 19. Some clothing hangs from the branch of a tree behind the scaffold. …
"They had been dead about a week. You can imagine how they smelled." [Ohrdruf]Content Note: Title from writing on reverse. Naked, emaciated corpses of prisoners piled in a hut and covered with lime. Numbered 120 on the…
"They were laying all over the place like this" [Ohrdruf]Content Note: Title from writing on reverse. Corpses of executed prisoners lie on the ground near the barracks. Liberators walk between the corpses…
"This is where they lived." [Ohrdruf]Content Note: Title from writing on reverse. Additional writing on reverse: "If you look at Life Magazine 7 Mar '45 you can see more. Double wire…
A group of liberators looks at the corpse of a naked, emaciated prisoner laid next to the corpses of two SS guards [Ohrdruf]Content Note: The corpse of a male prisoner has been placed next to the bodies of two SS guards who were murdered by the prisoners. The prisoner's…