Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
2022.008.1116 |
Object Name |
Photograph |
Description |
Corpses of murdered prisoners at Ohrdruff concentration camp. The corpses, some dressed in civilian clothes and others in camp issued striped uniforms are scattered in piles on the camp's grounds. Prisoner barracks are visible in the background behind a screen of trees. A note written on the reverse side rerads: "Concentration Camp at Ordruff Germany (near Giessen) March 1945." |
Date |
05/1945 |
Search Terms |
Atrocity Concentration camp Holocaust Occupation of Germany Prisoners Sixth Cavalry US Army War crime World War II |
Accession number |
2022.008 |
Collection |
6th Cavalry Museum Collection |