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"Civilians are forced to dig graves and handle bodies with bare hands" [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Title from caption on reverse. Townspeople dig a row of individual graves with shovels. In the background, a row of white stakes that may mark other graves are visible. Numbered 43 on the reverse.
Generals Eisenhower and Patton inspect the charred remains of prisoner corpses burned on a section of railroad track in the camp [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: General Eisenhower, General Bradley, and other American troops inspect charred human remains in a pile including railroad tracks. Another pile is visible in the background. In the distance, several military vehicles are visible. …
Congressional delegation view a V-bomb at an underground factory at Nordhausen
Content Note: Caption from a separate page: "Members of a U. S. Cong. committee investigating German atrocities view a German V-Bomb in an underground factory at Nordhausen, Germany. (L-R) Rep. John Vorys, Rep. Ed. V. Izac, Sen. C. Wayland Brooks,…
Congressional delegation visits an underground V-bomb factory at Nordhausen
Content Note: Caption from a separate page: "American Congressmen who came to Europe to see an underground V-bomb factory at Nordhausen, Germany. Here, in a forest of V-2 tail assemblies are (L-R) Sen. Leverett Saltonstall (R-Mass); Maj. H. A.…
German civilians remove corpses of prisoners using stretchers (3 of 3) [Nordhausen]
Content Note: Caption from a separate page: "German civilians remove the bodies of slave workers from the labor camp near Nordhausen, as U. S. soldiers supervise the grisly work. Hundreds of workers were systematically starved to death by the German…
German civilians remove corpses of prisoners using stretchers (2 of 3) [Nordhausen]
Content Note: Caption from a separate page: "German civilians remove bodies. Ninth Air Force photo." Corpses of prisoners laid in long rows. Liberators supervise German civilians who place the corpses on stretchers and carry them away. Ninth Air…
German civilians remove corpses of prisoners using stretchers (1 of 3) [Nordhausen]
Content Note: Caption from a separate page: "Bodies of slave laborers removed by German civilians under supervision of U. S. soldiers." Four German civilians lift a corpse by its arms and legs and place it on a stretcher. In the background, long…
Liberators view corpses of prisoners at Nordhausen
Content Note: Caption from a separate page: "Nordhausen. A Ninth Air Force photographer accompanying advance elements of Armor and Infantry made this picture at the slave labor camp near Nordhausen." Prisoner corpses laid out in long rows outdoors.…
"Bodies awaiting burial" [Nordhausen]
Content Note: Title from writing on reverse. Additional caption text: "German civilians were drafted to help in removing and burying the dead." Two long, parallel trenches with the corpses of prisoners laid side-by-side down their length. Between…
Congressional delegation walking through Camp Dora at Nordhausen, Germany
Content Note: Caption from a separate page: "American congressmen investigating German atrocities walk through the infamous camp Dora concentration camp at Nordhausen, Germany." The delegation and U. S. Army officials walk down a road through the…