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Content Note: Title from caption on reverse. An entrance to the Dachau concentration camp. A liberator stands to the left side of the gate and another sits in a chair on the right side of the gate. Photo taken in the fall of 1945. Numbered 69 on…

Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. Photo is out-of-focus. Man stands in the back of an open truck with high sides. Corpses of prisoners appear to be piled toward the front of the truck bed. Two men are visible standing in the…

Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. A line of liberators files past a row of corpses of prisoners laid out for burial. Each corpse has a white stake laid on it. Numbered 49 on the reverse.

Content Note: Caption from writing on reverse. Additional caption text: "This I took with big camera, and then blocked out most of neg to just get Lt. on this size paper." Averil is seated at a desk. Averil chose Wile to replace the 1270th's…

Content Note: Caption written on reverse of photograph. Several liberators stand on a podium. The Soviet, American and Australian [?] flags hang from the podium under a sign that says "THANKS to our LIBERATORS". Portraits of Franklin Delano…

Content Note: Caption from writing on the reverse. Convoy of open-bed trucks carrying prisoners of war. Two soldiers sit at the side of the road with their backs to the camera watching the trucks.

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…

Content Note: Title from caption on a separate page. Additional caption text: "Reims, France. Interviewing a British soldier on the treatment he received while a POW in Germany are L-R: Izac, Richards, Thomason, Wherry, Short, Vorys, Barkley,…

Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. Two emaciated corpses of prisoners lie on the straw near the wall of the box car. Both corpses are on their backs. The head of one faces the camera and the head of the other faces away. Both are…

Content Note: Caption written on the reverse side of the photograph. Additional caption text: "He could speak English and said he would write me later (home address). He was just about starved. He is 19 yrs old." Two men recline in a cart with…