- Headline
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Yank Views Gas-Death Chamber
- Sub-Headline
- Making His Way Slowly
- Publication Date
- Thursday, May 10, 1945
- Historical Event
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Eisenhower Asks Congress and Press to Witness Nazi Horrors
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- Page Section and Number
- 5
- Author/Byline
- International Newsphoto
- Article Text
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MAKING HIS WAY SLOWLY through a horror-haunted corridor of death, an American soldier of the U. S. 7th Army is shown entering the Nazi gas chambers which were located conveniently beside the Dachau crematory where thousands of persons were hurriedly sent to their graves. A skull and cross bones gives an added touch of the macabre to the scene. Signal Corps Radiophoto. (International Newsphoto) - History Unfolded Contributor
- Jennifer G.
- Location of Research
- Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com)
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Bibliography
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Abzug, Robert H. Inside the Vicious Heart: Americans and the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
Bridgman, Jon. End of the Holocaust: The Liberation of the Camps. Portland, OR: Areopagitica Press, 1990.
Chamberlin, Brewster S., and Marcia Feldman, editors. The Liberation of the Nazi Concentration Camps 1945: Eyewitness Accounts of the Liberators. Washington, DC: United States Holocaust Memorial Council, 1987.
Goodell, Stephen, and Kevin Mahoney. 1945: The Year of Liberation. Washington, DC: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1995.
Goodell, Stephen, and Susan D. Bachrach. Liberation 1945. Washington, DC: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1995.
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