- Headline
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Yanks Find Concentration Camp Murders
- Publication Date
- Tuesday, April 10, 1945
- Historical Event
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Eisenhower Asks Congress and Press to Witness Nazi Horrors
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- Newspaper
- Location
- Page Section and Number
- 8
- Author/Byline
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- Article Text
- [First Photo]
Murdered in cold blood by their Nazi guards, these slain victims of Fascism lie scattered about the grounds of the German concentration camp at Ohrdruf. The camp was captured by troops of the U. S. 4th Armored Division of the 3rd Army. Ohrdruf is nine miles south of Gotha.
[Second Photo]
Inspecting naked bodies of slain internees, as they were found in a woodshed of a concentration camp at Ohrdruf, is Maj. John R. Scott of Brooklyn, N. Y.—Via Signal Corps Radio. - History Unfolded Contributor
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Carlos G.
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Bibliography
Abzug, Robert H. GIs Remember: Liberating the Concentration Camps. Washington, DC: National Museum of American Jewish History, 1994.
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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