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

Photograph | Photograph Number: 02151
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."

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 Designation
MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Buchenwald Sub-Camps -- Ohrdruf -- LIBERATION -- Victims/Burial/Confrontation
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 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
 
Record last modified: 2007-04-02 00:00:00
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