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General Eisenhower listens as a survivor describes atrocities committed by Germans at the camp [Ohrdruf]Content Note: Caption text from separate sheet: "Standing beside a well-used Gallow, Gen. Eisenhower listens while occupants of a former German…
General Eisenhower views prisoner corpses at OhrdrufContent Note: Caption text from separate sheet: "Eisenhower walks around a cluster of corpses representing the remains of many of the inmates at the…
General Eisenhower watches survivors demonstrate how they were tortured [Ohrdruf]Content Note: Caption text from separate sheet: "Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, watches grimly while occupants of a German…
General Patton and American troops during visit to OhrdrufContent Note: Writing on reverse: "Walker. Man in T. coat & dress cap--Life reporter." Numbered 12 on the reverse. [Walker was the XX Corps…
General Patton standing in his jeep addressing the assembled American troops [Ohrdruf]Content Note: Writing on reverse: "This is when he told us to kill all the SOB [sic], not to capture a one of the bastards." Another jeep is parked…
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. …
Generals Eisenhower, Bradley and Patton at OhrdrufContent Note: Writing on reverse: "Bradley behine [sic] Ike. Patton following." Eisenhower, Bradley and Patton walk with American troops past a…
Generals Eisenhower, Patton and Bradley at OhrdrufContent Note: Generals Eisenhower, Patton and Bradley and XX Corps Commander Walker stand in a circle with other Army officers in front of Barrack 3. …
George E. King interviewContent Note: Transcript of an audio recording. King served with a tank unit of the 11th Armored Division, 3rd Army, and witnessed the liberation of…
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Ricketts served with the Company C, 305th Medical Batallion, 80th Infantry Division as a PFC. He…