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A survivor who has been prepared for evacuation from the Woebbelin concentration camp breaks into tears when he learns that he is not to be included in the first transport.

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    A survivor who has been prepared for evacuation from the Woebbelin concentration camp breaks into tears when he learns that he is not to be included in the first transport.
    A survivor who has been prepared for evacuation from the Woebbelin concentration camp breaks into tears when he learns that he is not to be included in the first transport. Original Caption: "At German concentration camp at Wobbelin, many inmates were found by the U.S. Ninth Army in pitiful condition. Here one of them breaks out in tears when he finds he is not leaving with the first group to the hospital, as though he will leave as soon as the worst cases have been removed. 82nd Airborne Division." The original Signal Corps caption reads, "NEW NAZI HORROR CAMP DISCOVERED. One of the worst Nazi concentration camps uncovered by Allied troops was liberated at Wobbelin, Germany, a small town five miles north of Ludwigslust and 90 miles northwest of Berlin. Soldiers of three Allied units -- the 82nd U.S. Airborne Division, the Eighth Infantry Division of the Ninth U.S. Army and airborne troops of the Second British Army -- entered the camp and found sick, starving inmates barely surviving under indescribable conditions of filth and squalor. They found hundreds of dead prisoners in one of the buildings while outside, in a yard, hundreds more were found hastily buried in huge pits. One mass grave contained 300 emaciated, disfigured corpses. The dead included Poles, Russians, Frenchmen, Belgians, Dutchmen and Germans, all of whom had been working as slave laborers for the Nazis. It is estimated that at least 150 of the original 4,000 prisoners succumbed daily, mostly from starvation and savage treatment at the hands of Nazi SS troops who operated the camp. Some of the bodies found were burned almost beyond recognition and systematic torture of the inmates was revealed by the physical condition of most of the survivors. Military Government officers immediately ordered leading citizens of nearby Ludwigslust and other towns to march through the camp and witness the atrocities committed by representatives of the German Government. Most of the civilians disclaimed any knowledge of the camp's existence despite the fact that many of the prisoners worked in the area. The local residents later were made to exhume the bodies from the mass graves at the camp and provide decent, respectable interment of all dead prisoners. Two hundred were buried in the public square of Ludwigslust May 7, 1945, and an equal number were buried in the garden of the highest Nazi official of Hagenow. Eighty more were laid to rest in the town of Schwerin. BIPPA EA 66640 THIS PHOTO SHOWS: An inmatge of the Wobbelin camp burst into tears when he learns that he cannot be included in the first group of liberated prisoners leaving for hopital treatment He is to be sent as soon as the worst ases have been cared for. U.S. Signal Worps Photo ETO-HQ-45-45418. SERVICED BY LONDON OWI FOR LIST B CERTIFIED AS PASSED BY SHAEF CENSOR

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    A survivor who has been prepared for evacuation from the Woebbelin concentration camp breaks into tears when he learns that he is not to be included in the first transport.

    Original Caption: "At German concentration camp at Wobbelin, many inmates were found by the U.S. Ninth Army in pitiful condition. Here one of them breaks out in tears when he finds he is not leaving with the first group to the hospital, as though he will leave as soon as the worst cases have been removed. 82nd Airborne Division."

    The original Signal Corps caption reads, "NEW NAZI HORROR CAMP DISCOVERED. One of the worst Nazi concentration camps uncovered by Allied troops was liberated at Wobbelin, Germany, a small town five miles north of Ludwigslust and 90 miles northwest of Berlin. Soldiers of three Allied units -- the 82nd U.S. Airborne Division, the Eighth Infantry Division of the Ninth U.S. Army and airborne troops of the Second British Army -- entered the camp and found sick, starving inmates barely surviving under indescribable conditions of filth and squalor. They found hundreds of dead prisoners in one of the buildings while outside, in a yard, hundreds more were found hastily buried in huge pits. One mass grave contained 300 emaciated, disfigured corpses. The dead included Poles, Russians, Frenchmen, Belgians, Dutchmen and Germans, all of whom had been working as slave laborers for the Nazis.

    It is estimated that at least 150 of the original 4,000 prisoners succumbed daily, mostly from starvation and savage treatment at the hands of Nazi SS troops who operated the camp. Some of the bodies found were burned almost beyond recognition and systematic torture of the inmates was revealed by the physical condition of most of the survivors. Military Government officers immediately ordered leading citizens of nearby Ludwigslust and other towns to march through the camp and witness the atrocities committed by representatives of the German Government. Most of the civilians disclaimed any knowledge of the camp's existence despite the fact that many of the prisoners worked in the area.

    The local residents later were made to exhume the bodies from the mass graves at the camp and provide decent, respectable interment of all dead prisoners. Two hundred were buried in the public square of Ludwigslust May 7, 1945, and an equal number were buried in the garden of the highest Nazi official of Hagenow. Eighty more were laid to rest in the town of Schwerin.

    BIPPA EA 66640

    THIS PHOTO SHOWS: An inmatge of the Wobbelin camp burst into tears when he learns that he cannot be included in the first group of liberated prisoners leaving for hopital treatment He is to be sent as soon as the worst ases have been cared for. U.S. Signal Worps Photo ETO-HQ-45-45418.
    SERVICED BY LONDON OWI FOR LIST B
    CERTIFIED AS PASSED BY SHAEF CENSOR
    Photographer
    Ralph Forney
    Date
    1945 May 04
    Locale
    Woebbelin, [Mecklenburg] Germany
    Photo Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Jill Bogard

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    Photo Source
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Provenance: Jill Bogard
    Second Provenance: Solomon Bogard
    Source Record ID: ETO-HQ-45-45418

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