"Concentration camp" [Generals Eisenhower and Patton at Ohdruf]

"Concentration camp" [Generals Eisenhower and Patton at Ohdruf]

Mercer, Fred (Donor)

Mercer, Fred (Photographer)

Content Note: Title from writing on reverse. Additional writing on reverse: "Look in Time Magazine of 14 May/45 & you will see Gen. Eisenhower talking to the man under the arrow. I took these pictures--send them home to mother after you have seen them." General Eisenhower and General Patton with a large group of American troops view the corpses of executed prisoners. Survivors are visible in the crowd. Numbered 14 on the reverse.

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Ohrdruf (Concentration camp)

Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David)

Patton, George S. (George Smith)

Mercer, Fred

1 silver gelatin print Image size: 4 1/2" x 6 1/2"; Paper size: 4 1/4" x 6 7/8" torn, bent, cracked, scratches, fingerprints, damage on negative, moisture wrinkling, writing (arrow). Reverse of photo: 2 paper labels, writing.

- - 1945

Emory University

Encoded as part of the SAGE Digital Archive Project: A Collaborative Project between the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, 1997-2000.

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Negative. TIFF image (400 dpi). JPG image (72 dpi).

JPG (72 dpi); 49 KB Digital image created as part of SAGE project, 1998.