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Dwight D. Eisenhower touring a liberated concentration camp

72-3223
Accession Number
72-3223
6.5x4.5 inches
Black & White
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NAID 348448185
Keywords
Armed forces officers
Concentration camps
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
World War, 1939-1945
HST Keywords
Germany - Cities and Towns - Gotha
People Pictured
Bradley, Omar Nelson, 1893-1981
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969
Patton, George S. (George Smith), 1885-1945
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U.S. Army Signal Corps

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Description
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, watches while former occupants of a German concentration camp at Gotha demonstrate how they were tortured by the Nazis operating the camp. General Eisenhower visited the camp during a tour of the Third Army Front. General Omar N. Bradley, 12th Army Group CG, and Lt. General George S. Patton, 3rd Army CG, are at Eisenhower's right. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."
Date(s)
April 1945