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Survivors standing on either side of a trench [Dachau]
Content Note: Photo is taken through a barbed wire fence. Survivors appear to be facing each other across a deep trench. Some stand in the trench facing the camera. Some of the men on the far side appear to be wearing military uniforms. Behind…
"Dead SS bastards from the concentration camp" [Dachau]
Content Note: Title from writing on reverse. Additional writing on reverse: "These were guards". Corpses of the guards lie on the banks of the canal. Their shoes have been taken. Liberators stand and walk along the path between the camp fence and…
"Not very pretty is it?" [corpses of prisoners at Dachau]
Content Note: Title from writing on reverse. Room filled with the corpses of prisoners. Some are clothed and others are naked. Numbered 46 on the reverse.
"These are the SS guards [dead on the banks of the canal]" [Dachau]
Content Note: Title from writing on reverse. Additional writing on reverse: "These are the SS guards. Notice [that] the people in the concentration camp [the survivors] have already stripped these [guards] of their shoes. There are more [corpses of…
Room filled with the corpses of prisoners [Dachau]
Content Note: Small room piled high with the corpses of prisoners. Most bodies are clothed, many with striped uniforms. The doors of the room are open, and the bodies are spilling out. Numbered 44 on the reverse.
"This is one of four ovens that I saw" [Dachau]
Content Note: Title from writing on reverse. Close-up of crematorium oven with doors open to reveal a pile of bones and ashes. Numbered 43 on the reverse.
"Partely [sic] disected [sic]" prisoner corpse [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Title from writing on reverse. Additional writing on reverse: "They left so fast they left the lights on." Naked, emaciated corpse of prisoner on a table with two large lights over it. Numbered 112 on the reverse.
Fred Mercer interview
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Mercer served with the 'B' Company, 69th Signal Battalion, 20th Corps of the 3rd Army and witnessed the liberation of Buchenwald. Location of interview: Warner Robins, Georgia.
"They had been dead about a week. You can imagine how they smelled." [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Title from writing on reverse. Naked, emaciated corpses of prisoners piled in a hut and covered with lime. Numbered 120 on the reverse.
"Ready for bural [sic]" [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Title from writing on reverse. Two rows of prisoner corpses being prepared for burial. Some corpses are clothed while others are naked. Liberators stand side-by-side around the corpses. One liberator squats down near a corpse. …