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1. An African American soldier poses for a picture in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia on its liberation day.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 54965
Date:
1945 May 06
…An African American soldier poses for a picture in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia on its liberation day.…
2. Two children walk past three African-American soldiers in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia on its liberation day.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 54963
Date:
1945 May 06
…Two children walk past three African-American soldiers in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia on its liberation day.…
3. An African American soldier reads a newspaper in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia on its liberation day.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 54964
Date:
1945 May 06
…An African American soldier reads a newspaper in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia on its liberation day.…
4. An African-American soldier with the 12th Armored Division, Seventh U.S. Army, stands guard over a group of German soldiers captured in the forest.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 83790
Date:
April 1945
…An African-American soldier with the 12th Armored Division, Seventh U.S. Army, stands guard over a group of German soldiers captured in the forest.…
5. American troops, including African-American soldiers from the Headquarters and Service Company of the 183rd Engineer Combat Battalion, 8th Corps, U.S. 3rd Army, view corpses stacked behind the crematorium during an inspection tour of the Buchenwald concentration camp. [Oversized print]
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 83761
Date:
1945 April 17
…American troops, including African-American soldiers from the Headquarters and Service Company of the 183rd Engineer Combat Battalion, 8th Corps, U…
6. Between a new Germany and a new America : unions between African-American soldiers and German women 1945-1960 / by Daniel Timothy Lee.
Publication | Library Call Number: D829.G3 L44 2009
Author/Creator:
Lee, Daniel Timothy
Published:
2009
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…Between a new Germany and a new America : unions between African-American soldiers and German women 1945-1960 / by Daniel Timothy Lee.…
7. Report and photographs relating to post-liberation Buchenwald
1993.A.0075 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0075 | RG Number: RG-04.039.01
Date:
creation: 1945
… appears to be an African-American soldier standing in front of a cart full of corpses. The photographs also contain scenes from Dachau and Ohrdruf camps.…
8. March of Time -- outtakes -- American soldiers in Le Mans, France
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Film | Accession Number: 2004.724.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4104 | Film ID: 2735
Film Title:
Life in Le Mans
Date:
Event: 1944 September
Production: 1944
Duration:
00:06:32
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… French civilians interacting happily. A group of several African American soldiers talk to a French colonial troop; they shake his hand and offer him a…
9. Oral history interview with Leon Bass
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0440.3 | RG Number: RG-50.460.0003
Date:
interview: 1991 February 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…African American soldiers--Personal narratives.…
10. Oral history interview with Otto Sampson
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.171 | RG Number: RG-50.671.0001
Date:
inclusive: 1999 April 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Otto Sampson Sr. discusses his experience as a member of the 380th Quartermaster Truck Company, an African American unit of 50 soldiers under General…
11. Oral history interview with Doris (Don) Duplechein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2000.91.53 | RG Number: RG-50.493.0053
Date:
interview: 1993 May 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…African American soldiers--Personal narratives.…
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 … were very few in the small town where he was raised. Duplechain joined the service in 1943 and was assigned to an all African-American medical unit…
12. Oral history interview with Wilfred Fisher
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2000.91.51 | RG Number: RG-50.493.0051
Date:
interview: 1993 May 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…African American soldiers--Personal narratives.…
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 …RG-50.493.0051 Summary Wilfred Jerome Fischer was an African-American born in a very small town in Louisiana on November 3, 1924. His family of eight…
13. Oral history interview with Melvin Darden
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2000.91.52 | RG Number: RG-50.493.0052
Date:
interview: 1993 May 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…African American soldiers--Personal narratives.…
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 … kill any diseases. Their job was to evacuate the inmates, whom they carried out for six to eight weeks. During that time the African-American soldiers…
14. Oral history interview with Arthur Johnson
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0126.24 | RG Number: RG-50.156.0024
Date:
interview: 1986 November 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; the non-Jewish former prisoners he met; the African American soldiers in his unit and the effects of the 1943 Detroit Race Riot had on their training…
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 … and so on. Many were still wearing their prison garb, their striped uniforms; others had picked up strays of American fatigues or American O.D.'s, wool…
15. Oral history interview with Joseph Kahoe
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1269.10 | RG Number: RG-50.470.0010
Date:
interview: 1995 February 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…African American soldiers.…
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 …,350 --> 00:06:01,910 Because they had been warned. 119 00:06:01,910 --> 00:06:04,430 And knowing how the American soldiers were, 120 00:06:04,430 --> 00:06:07…
16. Oral history interview with John Holmes
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1269.9 | RG Number: RG-50.470.0009
Date:
interview: 1995 February 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…African American soldiers.…
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 … had an American Colonel in there, I don't know how many months he had been a prisoner, but he originally weighed about two, his height must have been, I…
17. Oral history interview with William A. Scott
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.264.25 | RG Number: RG-50.234.0025
Date:
interview: 1981 November 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…African American soldiers.…
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 … the Germans were trying to kill all of them before the Americans got there. One SS trooper was still there and some of the survivors beat him to death…
18. Oral history interview with Leon Bass
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.75 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0075
Date:
interview: 1988 March 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… soldier in an African-American unit during World War II; his time in England in 1943 with General Patton's Third Army, 183rd Engineer Combat Battalion; his…
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 … errors in spelling or accuracy. I'm being very honest with you-- not much love 608 00:28:00,990 --> 00:28:04,290 lost between the White American soldier…
19. Young people train for jobs in the US military work program
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Film | Accession Number: 2020.209 | RG Number: RG-60.7227 | Film ID: 4547
Film Title:
Youth Jobs and Defense
Date:
Production: 1941
Duration:
00:12:15
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…AFRICAN-AMERICANS…
20. Greenland freed of Nazis; Warsaw Ghetto after uprising
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Film | Accession Number: 2001.358.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3036 | Film ID: 2393
Film Title:
Greenland Freed of Nazis; The War in Poland
Date:
Event: 12/27/1944
Duration:
00:04:59
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…AFRICAN-AMERICANS…
21. American POWs captured at the Battle of the Bulge
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Film | Accession Number: 2009.244.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4869 | Film ID: 2866
Film Title:
Deutsche Wochenschau
Date:
Event: December 1944
Censor: 1945 January 04
Duration:
00:05:11
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… African American prisoners, then juxtaposes them with the faces of German soldiers. German tanks roll by a barbed wire enclosure containing American POWs…
22. Senators visit Buchenwald; checking IDs; destroyed trains; military vehicles
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Film | Accession Number: 1994.119.1 | RG Number: RG-60.2019 | Film ID: 841
Date:
Event: April 23-24, 1945
Duration:
00:10:51
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…AFRICAN-AMERICANS…
23. Several liberators tell their stories during Plenary Session
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Film | RG Number: RG-60.3799 | Film ID: 2641
Film Title:
International Liberators Conference, 1981
Date:
Event: 10/27/1981
Production: 1981
Duration:
01:17:30
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…AFRICAN-AMERICANS…
24. German civilians are forced to see the bodies of prisoners exhumed from a mass grave near Nammering.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 74997
Date:
Circa 1945 May 06
…German civilians are forced to see the bodies of prisoners exhumed from a mass grave near Nammering. An African- American soldier observes the…
25. American generals tour the newly liberated Ohrdruf concentration camp.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 78714
Date:
1945 April 12
…AFRICAN-AMERICANS…
26. Entertainer Paul Robeson performs for American soldiers in Dachau.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 85739
Date:
1945
…Entertainer Paul Robeson performs for American soldiers in Dachau.…
27. Entertainer Paul Robeson performs for American soldiers in Dachau.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 85735
Date:
1945
…Entertainer Paul Robeson performs for American soldiers in Dachau.…
28. Entertainer Paul Robeson performs for the American soldiers in Dachau.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 85738
Date:
1945
…Entertainer Paul Robeson performs for the American soldiers in Dachau.…
29. Entertainer Paul Robeson performs for American soldiers in Dachau.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 85736
Date:
1945
…Entertainer Paul Robeson performs for American soldiers in Dachau.…
30. Two African American US soldiers pose in front of a car in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia on its liberation day.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 54962
Date:
1945 May 06
…Two African American US soldiers pose in front of a car in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia on its liberation day.…
31. General George S. Patton (with his back to camera) converses with General Omar Bradley during their tour of the newly liberated Ohrdruf concentration camp.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 87662
Date:
1945 April 12
…AFRICAN-AMERICANS…
32. A seventeen-year-old Hungarian Jewish boy identifies the body of his father, who was among the concentration camp prisoners from Flossenbuerg shot in the woods near Neunburg vorm Wald while on a death march.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 22203
Date:
1945 April 29
…SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN)…
33. William A. Scott,III, shortly after his induction at Fort Benning, Georgia. Pvt. Scott was at Buchenwald when it was liberated by American forces.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 86235
Date:
March 1943
…AFRICAN-AMERICANS…
34. Portrait of Leon Bass (left) in U.S. Army uniform during the Second World War. He was a sargeant during the war.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 08577
Date:
Circa 1945
…Leon Bass (1926-2015) and other members of the all African-American 183rd unit were among the first visitors to Buchenwald several days after…
35. Portrait of Leon Bass (left) and another Afro-American soldier in U.S. Army uniform during the Second World War.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 55324
Date:
1945
…Portrait of Leon Bass (left) and another Afro-American soldier in U.S. Army uniform during the Second World War.…
36. Defendant Paul Blobel is sentenced to death by hanging at the Einsatzgruppen Trial.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 08607
Date:
1948 April 10
…SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN)…
37. A German civilian from Nammering looks at the corpses of prisoners exhumed from a mass grave near the town.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 85729
Date:
Circa 1945 May 06
…SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN)…
38. German civilians from Nammering are forced by U. S. troops to look at the corpses exhumed from a mass grave near the town.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 85740
Date:
Circa 1945 May 06
…AFRICAN-AMERICANS…
39. Entertainer Paul Robeson performs for American soldiers in Dachau.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 85737
Date:
1945
…Entertainer Paul Robeson performs for American soldiers in Dachau.…
40. Miracle at St. Anna / James McBride.
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Publication | Library Call Number: PS3613.C28 M57 2008
Author/Creator:
McBride, James, 1957-
Published:
New York, N.Y. : Riverhead Books, 2008
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…African American soldiers--Fiction.…
41. The ugly secrets of Private Roy : a young man struggles with his loyalty to America during one of the most tumultuous periods in American history / by Mr. Edward Roy.
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Publication | Library Call Number: PS3618.O8926 U55 2014
Author/Creator:
Roy, Edward
Published:
North Charleston, South Carolina : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, [2014]
©2014
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…African American soldiers--Fiction.…
42. African Americans and WW II.
Publication | Library Call Number: D810.N4 A37 1994
Published:
Washington, D.C. : Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, [1994]
©1994
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…African American soldiers.…
43. Recasting race after World War II : Germans and African Americans in American-occupied Germany / Timothy L. Schroer.
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Publication | Library Call Number: D829.G3 S316 2007
Author/Creator:
Schroer, Timothy L., 1966-
Published:
Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2007]
©2007
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…African American soldiers--Germany--History--20th century.…
44. Immortal valor : the black Medal of Honor winners of World War II / Robert Child.
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Publication
Author/Creator:
Child, Robert, 1963-
Published:
Oxford, England : Osprey Publishing, [2022]
©2022
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…African American soldiers--History--20th century.…
45. Patton's Panthers : the African-American 761st Tank Battalion in World War II / Charles W. Sasser.
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Publication | Library Call Number: D769.306 761st .S37 2005
Author/Creator:
Sasser, Charles W.
Published:
New York : Pocket Books, [2004]
©2004
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…African American soldiers--History--20th century.…
46. Witness for my father : a World War II story of loss, hope, and discovery : how a Jewish survivor and a black lieutenant prevailed against genocide and racism / Barbara Bergren.
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Publication | Library Call Number: DS134.72.W4325 B37 2020
Author/Creator:
Bergren, Barbara
Published:
United States : Sandkey Press, 2020
©2020
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…African American soldiers--Germany--Biography.…
47. Balm in Gilead : a story from the war / John L. Withers II.
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Publication | Library Call Number: D810.B53 W58 2019
Author/Creator:
Withers, John L. (John Lovelle)
Published:
[Morrisville, North Carolina] : Lulu Publishing Services, [2019]
©2019
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…African American soldiers--Germany--Biography.…
48. Race after Hitler : Black occupation children in postwar Germany and America / Heide Fehrenbach.
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Publication | Library Call Number: HQ777.9 .F44 2005
Author/Creator:
Fehrenbach, Heide
Published:
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2005]
©2005
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…African American soldiers--Germany--History--20th century.…
49. Brothers in arms : the epic story of the 761st Tank Battalion, WWII's forgotten heroes / Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anthony Walton.
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Publication | Library Call Number: D769.306 761st .A24 2004
Author/Creator:
Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem, 1947-
Published:
New York : Broadway Books, 2004
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…African American soldiers--Biography.…
50. On American soil : how justice became a casualty of World War II / Jack Hamann.
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Publication | Library Call Number: KF7641 .H36 2005
Author/Creator:
Hamann, Jack, 1954-
Published:
Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2005
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…African American soldiers--Civil rights--Washington (State)--Seattle.…