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

Photograph | Photograph Number: 83413
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."

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 Designation
MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Dachau Sub-camps -- Kaufering Lager IV (Hurlach) -- LIBERATION -- Liberators/Greeting Liberators
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

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Rights and Restrictions

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
 
Record last modified: 2017-11-29 00:00:00
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