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The bodies of prisoners lie stacked in a shed in the Ohrdruf concentration camp.

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    The bodies of prisoners lie stacked in a shed in the Ohrdruf concentration camp.
    The bodies of prisoners lie stacked in a shed in the Ohrdruf concentration camp.  

The original caption reads "These emaciated, nude corpses, stacked like cord-wood in a bin at the concentration camp at Goth, Germany, tell their own story of the sadism and brutality of the Nazi gaolers.  They are strewn with quicklime in a haphazard attempt to destroy evidence of the crimes.  General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, viewed the Gotha horrors during a tour of the Third Army Front."

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    The bodies of prisoners lie stacked in a shed in the Ohrdruf concentration camp.

    The original caption reads "These emaciated, nude corpses, stacked like cord-wood in a bin at the concentration camp at Goth, Germany, tell their own story of the sadism and brutality of the Nazi gaolers. They are strewn with quicklime in a haphazard attempt to destroy evidence of the crimes. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, viewed the Gotha horrors during a tour of the Third Army Front."
    Photographer
    Moore
    Date
    1945 April 12
    Locale
    Ohrdruf, [Thuringia] Germany
    Photo Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

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    Photo Source
    National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
    Copyright: Public Domain
    Source Record ID: 153-Case files 1944-49--box 273--file 12-468
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Provenance: David Wherry
    Published Source
    Inside the Vicious Heart: Americans and the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps - Abzug, Robert H. - Oxford University Press - p. 12

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    2007-04-02 00:00:00
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