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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

Russian prisoner of war

Liberated Russian prisoner showing where S. S. troops beat him about the legs with lead filled leather whip. This is one of a series of pictures taken at a German concentration camp in Wobbelin, Germany, after its capture by troops of the 82nd Airborne Division, 9th US Army. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities.

Bodies of dead inmates fill yard

Rows of bodies of dead inmates fill yard of Lager Nordhausen, a Gestapo Concentration Camp near Nordhausen, Germany. The photograph, according to the cameraman, shows less than half of the bodies of the several hundred inmates who died of starvation or were shot by Gestapo men at the camp. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."

Hospital cribs at Buchenwald concentration camp

Prisoners in the "hospital" cribs at Buchenwald concentration camp. This photo is one of a group of photographs taken shortly after the liberation of the infamous camp near Weimar, Germany. The photographs were taken by a rehabilitation officer of the U.S. Army Chief Surgeon's office when he arrived at the camp three days after Weimar was taken by the U.S. Third Army. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."

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.