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General Eisenhower Views Torture Demonstration at a Liberated Concentration Camp

General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander (center), General Omar N. Bradley, 12th Army Group CG (second left), and Lt. General George S. Patton, 3rd Army CG (far left), watch while survivors of Ohrdruf concentration camp demonstrate how they were tortured by the Nazis. Jules Grad (far right), pool correspondent for the "Stars and Stripes," is taking notes. The mustached soldier who is pointing at the demonstrated torture victim is Alois J. Liethen of Appleton, Wisconsin, who served as the interpreter for the tour of Ohrdruf.

General Eisenhower Stands at Gallows of Ohrdruf Concentration Camp

General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander (center), listens to interpreter Alois J. Liethen of Appleton, WI, (left center, with mustache) describe the use of the gallows at Ohrdruf concentration camp. Ignaz Feldmann, a survivor of multiple camps, stands front left. Jules Grad, correspondent for the "Stars and Stripes" newspaper (behind, center) takes notes. General Eisenhower was on a tour of liberated areas south of Gotha, Germany. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."

United States Army Commanders View Charred Remains of Prisoners of Ohrdruf Concentration Camp

General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, and a party of high ranking U.S. Army officers including General Omar N. Bradley, C.G., 12th Army Group; Lt. General George S. Patton, C.G., 3rd U.S. Army; and Maj. General Manton Eddy, C.G., 12th Corps view the charred bodies of prisoners that were burned upon a section of railroad track during the evacuation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp.

General Wallace Graham in Crossing the Equator Ceremony on the USS Missouri

Original caption: "General Wallace Graham gets "the works." The White House physician, General Wallace Graham, participates in a crossing the equator ceremony while on board the USS Missouri, returning with President Harry S. Truman to the United States from a trip to Brazil. Others are unidentified. From the album "President Truman's Trip to Rio de Janeiro."

General Wallace Graham Participates in a Crossing the Equator Ceremony on the USS Missouri

Original caption: "White House physician and 'Archidoligist' General Wallace Graham answers his summons." General Wallace Graham is participating in the crossing the equator ceremony on the USS Missouri while returning to the United States from a trip to Brazil with President Harry S. Truman. Others are unidentified. From the album "President Truman's Trip to Rio de Janeiro."

General Harry Vaughan Participates in Crossing the Equator Ceremony, USS Missouri

Original caption: "Landlubber Vaughan is called "Front and center." Major General Harry Vaughan participates in the crossing the equator ceremony on the USS Missouri upon President Harry S. Truman's return trip to the United States from Brazil. Others are unidentified. From the album "President Truman's Trip to Rio de Janeiro."

Truman with officers

President Harry S. Truman visits the Naval Ordnance Depot in Arco, Idaho. Standing beside the car, from left to right are: General Wallace Graham, Captain Robert Dennison, Captain C.H. Roper, President Truman, and Colonel Robert Landry. President Truman stopped in Arco while on his western trip. See also 66-684 and 2015-2171.