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"Representative Izac looks at skulls and bodies... in an incinerator" [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Title from caption on a separate page. Additional caption text: "Rep. Izac looks at skulls and bodies of prisoners in an incinerator at the infamous Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp near Weimar. Rep. Izac is a member of a…
"U.S. legislators... hear former prisoner demonstrate how victims were... clubbed to death" [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Title from caption on a separate page. Additional caption text: "U.S. legislators in Germany to witness Nazi concentration camp horrors at Buchenwald hear former prisoner demonstrate how victims were hung on hooks and then clubbed to…
"Interviewing former political prisoner at a Nazi concentration camp in German" [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Title from caption on a separate page. Congressional committee listens to a former political prisoner at a Nazi concentration camp. Persons visible left to right: Sen. Wherry, Rep Izac, Sen Barkley, Sen Brooks, Rep Richards, and Rep…
"A section of the hospital cribs" [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Title from caption on a separate page. Additional caption text: "The patients in the upper cribs were unable to go to the latrine, making sanitation in this section intolerable." A section of bunks four levels high is visible between…
Liberators examine corpses of prisoners [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Liberators examine corpses of executed prisoners scattered on the ground near barracks. The corpses are clothed in prisoner uniforms. Numbered 71 on the reverse. Photograph was printed in June 1979.
"Each of these dead had a bullet hole in her or her [sic] head" [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. Corpses of executed prisoners lying on the ground. All are dressed in prisoner uniforms. Date is given on reverse as "April, May, 1945". Numbered 34 on the reverse.
"Electric fence around camp" [Ohdruf]
Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. View along the fence from inside the camp. A watchtower is visible outside the fence. Numbered 33 on the reverse.
"Bodies sprinkled with lime awaiting crematorium" [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. A pile of corpses of prisoners in a room. They appear to be unclothed. Numbered 32 on the reverse.
"Crematory" [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. A group of liberators file in a door to the crematory. All that is visible of the building is the door and the lower half of a window. Numbered 30 on the reverse.
"The gallows" [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Title from a caption on the reverse. A small group of liberators studies a scaffold near the barracks. Another group of liberators congregates behind them. Numbered 29 on the reverse.