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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.
Calvin Coolidge Paul diary excerpt
Content Note: Paul served as a Corporal in the 34th Squadron of the 17th Bombardment Group and witnessed the liberation of Mauthausen.
Calvin Coolidge Paul interview
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Paul served as a Corporal in the 34th Squadron of the 17th Bombardment Group and witnessed the liberation of Mauthausen. Location of interview: Jonesboro, Georgia.
Captain John Henry Baker Jr. interview
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Captain Baker served with Company B, 260th Infantry [Regiment] of the 65th Division of the 3rd Army and witnessed the liberation of Ohrdruf and Mauthausen. Location of interview: Savannah, Georgia.
Captain Malcolm Webber interview
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Webber served as a captain with the 786th Tank Battalion, Third Corps, First Army, and witnessed the liberation of a camp near the town of Hemer. Location of interview: New Haven, Connecticut.
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 Not for Publication."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…
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 "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 Not for publication."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 "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 "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…