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Dennis E. Wile standing in front of Techwood Homes in Atlanta, Georgia
Content Note: Wile standing in front of Techwood Homes dressed in his army uniform. Taken during Army Specialized Training Program at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Dennis E. Wile interview
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Wile served with the 1270th Combat Engineer Battalion as a photographer and witnessed the liberation of Buchenwald. Location of interview: Clarkston, Georgia.
Dennis E. Wile at Techwood Homes, Atlanta, Georgia
Content Note: Wile in front of Techwood Homes dressed in his army uniform. He is holding a rifle and lunging forward. Taken during Army Specialized Training Program at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Computer used to genetically match German couples
Content Note: An International computer used to make appropriate genetic matches between young German couples. It was housed in a Catholic school in attempt to protect it from bombing. Two soldiers are visible in the background. See also…
Caption for "The crematorium" [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Text: "The Civilian is a Jew--Polished apples for 6 yrs at Weimar Concentration Camp--Who knows what price he's paid for his life, or what deeds he's done. 'We need a place to burn, our prisoners will build it and run it; we will…
Caption for "Prisoners used to produce plasma with typhus antibodies" [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Text: "No, the Nazis wasn't quite insane for instance some men where [sic] allowed to live because they were continually being injected with typhus to make an immunity plasma for Berlin of course too much of a donation often caused…
Caption for "Dead outside barracks" [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Text: "Nazis show their value for Human Life at Weimar, Germany. At Camp Buchenwald this is a nights claim for one barrack or block. Not for publication." The photo was stamped "passed" by the Army Examiner. Numbered 22 on the…
Caption for "Corpses of prisoners near the crematorium oven" [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Text: " 'If you starve them, when they die you have less to burn, and the more you burn them more healthy your workmen by replacement.' This is just another pile of dead people, America! The Nazis have many more at this place--this is…
Caption for "A living deadman" [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Text: "A living deadman. He won't recover! A day later and some 20,000 men would have been liquidated had it not been for Patton's dough [boys]. Not for Publication." The photo was stamped "passed" by the Army Examiner. Numbered 24…
Bunker at the firing range used during training in England
Content Note: Soldiers used Allied and German weapons to learn to distinguish the weapons used by the enemy. Three soldiers stand on top of the hill overlooking the bunker.