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1226. Two American officers with the 94th Division count the bodies of 71 political prisoners exhumed from a mass grave on Wenzelnberg near Solingen-Ohligs.
Luettringhausen prison, were shot and buried by the Gestapo following orders to eliminate all Reich enemies just ... Source: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
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1227. The body of a U.S. pilot who was shot by German police, along with two other American airmen, in the town of Lochtum.
the town of Lochtum. After their crash landing, all three pilots were captured by local police and ... marched through Lochtum, where they were stoned by the inhabitants. The pilots were then executed and
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1228. From the film footage, "Here is Germany," a still image of American soldiers burning Nazi insignia as part of the denazification program.
as part of the denazification program. Public destruction of Nazi flags, pamphlets, and insignia ... an Allied Military Government order to confiscate and destroy Nazi books, to "cleanse the German
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1229. American soldiers execute SS camp guards who have been lined up against a wall during the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp.
the soldiers advanced, they found stacks of bodies in other parts of the camp and thousands of ... wall and gunned down by members of the 1st Company. Others were shot in one of the boxcars or beaten
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1230. Female survivors rest in the Ernst Leitz Optical works in Wetzlar after their liberation by American troops with the First Army.
American troops with the First Army. These workers from Poland and the Ukraine were captives for the ... Female survivors rest in the Ernst Leitz Optical works in Wetzlar after their liberation by ... Source: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
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1231. Allied POWs, imprisoned in a camp near Hammelburg, cheer as an American tank crashes through the barbed wire enclosure of the prison camp.
barbed wire enclosure of the prison camp. ... Source: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
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1232. Under the supervision of American troops, a German woman is forced to walk among the corpses of prisoners exhumed from a mass grave near Nammering.
the local inhabitants attempted to give the prisoners food and water, but these provisions were stolen ... by the 150 SS and police officers guarding the train. The commanding officer in charge, Lieutenant
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1233. Under the supervision of American soldiers, German civilians look at the bodies of 71 political prisoners exhumed from a mass grave on Wenzelnberg near Solingen-Ohligs.
taken from Luettringhausen prison, were shot and buried by the Gestapo following orders to eliminate all ... Source: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
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1234. Under the supervision of American soldiers, German civilians from Neunburg vorm Wald place corpses into coffins for transportation to the town cemetery where they will be properly buried.
The atrocities that took place at Schwarzenfeld and Neunberg vorm Wald followed the evacuation of ... Fl The atrocities that took place at Schwarzenfeld and Neunberg vorm Wald followed the evacuation of
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1235. Under the supervision of American soldiers, German civilians from Neunburg vorm Wald place corpses into coffins for transportation to the town cemetery where they will be properly buried.
preparation for the mile and a half treak to the burial grounds outside Nurnburg, Germany." [sic] ... The atrocities that took place at Schwarzenfeld and Neunberg vorm Wald followed the evacuation of
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1236. Anti-American poster with a quote from Adolf Hitler prophesizing the extermination of the Jews
The collection consists of anti-Semitic, advertising, and political posters, and a pair of shoes ... that enters the war, and that if Jews instigate a world war against the Aryan people, the Jews would be ... and reinforce antisemitic ideas. As part of their propaganda campaign, the Nazis created the Word of
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1237. How did different goals and political systems shape racism in Nazi Germany and the United States?
Some discriminatory and segregationist practices in Nazi Germany and the United States in the ... same period were similar. However, the goals of the racist policies and the nature of the political
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1238. Animated map and graphics of Poland for the film "Poland - the Country and the People"
In the 1930s, the American filmmaker Julien Bryan chronicled life in Poland and Nazi Germany. When ... Poland - the Country and the People
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1239. Graphics and intertitles for the film "Poland - the Country and the People"
In the 1930s, the American filmmaker Julien Bryan chronicled life in Poland and Nazi Germany. When ... Poland - the Country and the People
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1240. Animated maps and titles for the film "Poland - the Country and the People"
In the 1930s, the American filmmaker Julien Bryan chronicled life in Poland and Nazi Germany. When ... Poland - the Country and the People
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1241. Saul Sorrin (left, foreground), director of UNRRA in the Munich area, visits a heder (religious primary school) at the Foehrenwald DP camp camp in the company of Frank Kingdon (right), American journalist and politician, and Ted Feder (left), assistant director of the JDC in Germany.
infiltrate Eastern European Jews into the American Zone of Germany and then get them and other DPs to ... journalist and politician, and Ted Feder (left), assistant director of the JDC in Germany.
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1242. US Army 8th Armored Division shoulder sleeve patch with tank, gun, and red lightning bolt
The collection consists of five American military badges. ... yellow for cavalry, blue for infantry, and red for artillery. The symbols represent the characteristics ... the tank track, mobility and armor protection; the cannon, fire power; and the red flash of lightning ... shock action. The 8th Division landed in France on January 5, 1945, fought its way through France and
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1243. American chaplain Rabbi Hershel Schaecter conducts Shavuot services for Buchenwald survivors shortly after liberation.
a striped pants and a black jacket. Also seated in the first row, wearing shorts, is Robert ... Lau is pictured sitting third from left, in the first row, between two American soldiers. Seated in ... the second row are Jakub Chojt (left side, wearing a white shirt) and brothers, Yosl Bekiermaszyn, now ... Baker, (middle of the row, wearing a black jacket) and Boruch Bekiermaszyn (two to the right of him
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1244. World War II
Contains information about American prisoners of war and their experiences at the hands of the ... American servicemen (POWs) in stalags, forced marches, death marches and separated because of ... Nazis on marches and in POW and concentration camps. Some materials also relate to American Jewish POWs ... The donor collected correspondence from fellow veterans, newsclippings, and other materials from a
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1245. An American soldier examines markings on prisoners' clothing in Natzweiler-Struthof.
An American soldier examines markings on prisoners' clothing in Natzweiler-Struthof. The "N N ... on the back of the shirt he is holding stands for "Nacht und Nebel" (Night and Fog). NN prisoners ... Source: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
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1246. Oral history interview with Suzanne Agasee
Contains oral history interviews with 157 Holocaust survivors recorded during the American ... information about persecution, life in the ghettos and concentration camps, and concentration camp liberation ... being taken to a Jewish orphanage after the war and living there for three years; searching for living ... relatives; she and her brothers becoming wards of the Jewish Congress and being sent to Canada to live with
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1247. An American soldier sorts through crates of silverware taken from prisoners in Buchenwald.
An American soldier sorts through crates of silverware taken from prisoners in Buchenwald. The ... Source: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park ... (SIGNAL CORPS); PROPERTY (PERSONAL/PRISONERS); SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN); WAREHOUSES/STOREROOMS
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1248. Americans celebrate V-E Day in Times Square in New York City.
Source: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park ... AMERICANS; BANNERS; CELEBRATIONS; CELEBRATIONS (LIBERATION); CROWDS; FILMS; SIGNS/BANNERS/POSTERS ... Americans celebrate V-E Day in Times Square in New York City. Behind them is a banner advertising
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1249. Residents of the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons' camp demonstrate against British immigration policy to Palestine in advance of a visit by the Anglo-American UN Committee on Palestine.
Yehoshua and Rivka (nee Veber) Begun (the parents of the donor) worked as aid workers in Bergen ... -Bels Yehoshua and Rivka (nee Veber) Begun (the parents of the donor) worked as aid workers in Bergen
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1250. Residents of the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons' camp demonstrate against British immigration policy to Palestine in advance of a visit by the Anglo-American UN Committee on Palestine.
Yehoshua and Rivka (nee Veber) Begun (the parents of the donor) worked as aid workers in Bergen ... -Bels Yehoshua and Rivka (nee Veber) Begun (the parents of the donor) worked as aid workers in Bergen