A U.S. Signal Corps cameraman, Joseph Wright of the 103rd Infantry Division, films evidence of Nazi atrocities in Kaufering IV.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 83413

Overview

Caption: A U.S. Signal Corps cameraman, Joseph Wright of the 103rd Infantry Division, films evidence of Nazi atrocities in Kaufering IV.

Original caption reads, "The Landsberg Atrocity: A Signal Corps cameraman records the horror of Lands-
berg prison. In the smoking remants of their burned prison hut lie charred and ematiated bodies of Jewish prisoners burned alive by Nazi prison guards who locked them in their wooden huts and set them afire before retreating be-fore seventh army."
Photographer: Edward C. Newell
Date: 1945 April 29
Locale: Hurlach, [Bavaria] Germany
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

Photo Source: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

Copyright: Public Domain

Source Record ID: 153-Case files 1944-49--box 276--file 12-481
Hoover Institution Archives

Copyright: Exclusively with source

Source Record ID: neg. 46031 E-2
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Stuart McKeever

Source Record ID: Collections: 1996.A.71

Keyword: CAMERAS CONCENTRATION CAMPS CORPSES DACHAU KAUFERING IV (HURLACH) LANDSBERG PHOTOGRAPHERS (SIGNAL CORPS) PHOTOGRAPHERS/FILM CREWS SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN) SUB-CAMPS
Photo Designation: MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Dachau Sub-camps -- Kaufering Lager IV (Hurlach) -- LIBERATION -- Liberators/Greeting Liberators