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"A few thousand hanged here" [Ohrdruf]Content Note: Title from writing on reverse. Additional writing on reverse: "Used wire, not rope." Liberator looks up at a scaffold. Numbered 111 on…
"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…
"German guard at front gate" [Ohrdruf]Content Note: Title from writing on reverse. Additional writing on reverse: "Dark spots, bullet holes." Liberators stand and walk behind the corpse…
"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.…
"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…
Fred Mercer interviewContent Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Mercer served with the 'B' Company, 69th Signal Battalion, 20th Corps of the 3rd Army and witnessed…
"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…
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…
"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…
"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…