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Bunker at the firing range used during training in EnglandContent 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…
Calvin Coolidge Paul diary excerptContent Note: Paul served as a Corporal in the 34th Squadron of the 17th Bombardment Group and witnessed the liberation of Mauthausen.
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Paul served as a Corporal in the 34th Squadron of the 17th Bombardment Group and witnessed the…
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Captain Baker served with Company B, 260th Infantry [Regiment] of the 65th Division of the 3rd Army…
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Webber served as a captain with the 786th Tank Battalion, Third Corps, First Army, and witnessed the…
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…
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.' …
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. …
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…
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…