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A survivor reenacts how the hangings took place at Ohrdurf concentration camp, a sub-camp of Buchenwald.

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    A survivor reenacts how the hangings took place at Ohrdurf concentration camp, a sub-camp of Buchenwald.
    A survivor reenacts how the hangings took place at Ohrdurf concentration camp, a sub-camp of Buchenwald.

The caption for the photo reads, "The scaffold for public execution. The prisoner was hung from a chain noose. The plank was then pushed from under his feet. If he didn't die quickly he was hit over the head with a potato masher."

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    A survivor reenacts how the hangings took place at Ohrdurf concentration camp, a sub-camp of Buchenwald.

    The caption for the photo reads, "The scaffold for public execution. The prisoner was hung from a chain noose. The plank was then pushed from under his feet. If he didn't die quickly he was hit over the head with a potato masher."
    Date
    1945 April 12
    Locale
    Ohrdruf, [Thuringia] Germany
    Photo Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Lee T. Stinchfield

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    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Provenance: Lee T. Stinchfield

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    Biography
    Colonel Frank E Stinchfield, MD served as a physician in the liberating forces medical team stationed at Buchenwald.
    Record last modified:
    2012-03-26 00:00:00
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