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Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Tirey served in Combat Command R of the 12th Armored Division and witnessed the liberation of Landau. Goodfriend was interned at a forced labor camp in Poland, escaped, and was then hidden by a Polish…

Content Note: Clothed corpses of executed prisoners lie in the foreground. Liberators walk and stand behind them. On the lefthand side, a small group of liberators talk to some survivors, one of whom gestures to the right. A barrack is visible in…

Content Note: The corpse of a male prisoner who had died prior to the evacuation (and had been placed in a hut with other corpses and covered with lime) lies face down near the corpses of prisoners executed when Ohrdruf was evacuated. Liberators…

Content Note: Male civilians use shovels and picks to dig graves. Liberators stand over them with rifles slung over their shoulders, observing their work. Numbered 74 on the reverse.

Content Note: A scaffold near the barracks. Three liberators stand behind it, looking at it. Numbered 76 on the reverse.

Content Note: Numbered 77 on the reverse.

Content Note: Numbered 79 on the reverse.

Content Note: The corpses are stacked with either their heads or their feet toward the camera next to a building. They are emaciated, and some are clothed while others are not. Two of the liberators are wearing gloves. Numbered 78 on the reverse.

Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Haiden G. Turner served with the 30th Special Services Company, 20th Corps of the 3rd Army as a captain and witnessed the liberation of Buchenwald. Location of interview: Avondale Estates, Georgia.

Content Note: Caption text from separate sheet: "Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, watches grimly while occupants of a German concentration camp at Gotha demonstrate how they were tortured by the Nazi sadists operating the camp. …