Army Signal Corps Photos of Nazi Atrocities

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Object ID

2012.1.77a-k

Object Name

Print, Photographic

Files

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Description

Black and white photographs:

a: of naked bodies lying on the ground with other clothed bodies

b: two bodies on the ground with the forearm of a third body in the foregound

c:men in a barracks bunks with one man standing

d:decomposed body lying in thorns or barbed wire

e: two men standing over decomposed corpses with buildlings in the background

f: pile of many bodies

g: men under a blanket

h: pile of about ten bodies

i: crematorium ovens

j: large pile of bodies with a roof in the background

k: tan envelope with "10 GENUINE PHOTOGRAPHS, NAZI ATROCITIES" at top left

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

A set of 10 Army Signal Corps photographs with original envelope reproducing images taken at time of liberation of Buchenwald.

Dimensions

2 1/2 x 3 1/2"

Keywords

Death, Death camp, Liberation, Crematorium, Buchenwald, Nazi, Atrocities

Subcollection

Concentration

Recommended Citation

"Army Signal Corps Photos of Nazi Atrocities" (2016). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2012.1.77a-k.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/741

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