Browse Items (498 total)
Sort by:
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 Not for publication."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 "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 "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 Not for Publication."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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Bridge "built by A Company 1270th Engineer Combat Battalion and 678 Engineer LE Company. "
Content Note: Caption from writing on reverse of photograph. Additional caption text: "Nuremberg, Germany, April 27, 1945. Built By A Company 1270th Engr Combat Battalion and 678 Engineer LE Company. Be Gay Now, You GI Slave, Your CBI Bound, Use…
Bert Weston interview
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Weston served with the 30th Field Hospital, 20th Corps, 3rd Army, and witnessed the liberation of Ebensee. Location of interview: Atlanta, Georgia.