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

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 02151

Overview

Caption: 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

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

Keyword: BUCHENWALD CLOSE-UPS CONCENTRATION CAMPS CORPSES OHRDRUF SHEDS SUB-CAMPS
Photo Designation: MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Buchenwald Sub-Camps -- Ohrdruf -- LIBERATION -- Victims/Burial/Confrontation