Camp de concentration de Nordhausen-Dora (Allemagne), [1945]. - 3 photos - Photo n° 169130
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169130
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U.S. Troops overrun Nazi Slaughter House. The bodies of hundreds of former slave workers of the Nazis were discovered by soldiers of the Third Armored and 104 th Infantry Divisions, First U.S. Army, in the "Lager-Nordhausen," Nazi concentration camp in Nordhausen, Germany, which usually contained between 3000 and 4000 prisoners. The dead lay beside the sick and dying and the Nazi camp masters had made no attempt to check the contagious diseases and grangrene suffered by maltreated prisonners of many nationalities. The bodies, which were no more than skeletens, were buried by German civilians who were also forced to dig mass graves. The few prisoners still alive, who had been beaten, maltreated in other ways and starved by the Nazis, have been removed to Allied hospitals. Troops of the First U.S. Army entered Nordhausen April 10, 1945. The Reich city, 120 miles southwest of Berlin, was a manufacturing center for Nazi V-weapens. Bippa EA 62447 This photo shows : a liberated Polish slave worker, who has already received Allied medical treatment, shows Corporal John L. Lyndon, First U.S. Army soldier from Rome, New York, the interieur of the cremation oven used by Nazi camp authorities to destroy the bodies of murdered inmates. U.S. Signal Corps Photo ETO-HQ-45-32271. Serviced by London OWI to list B Certified as passed by sheaf censor. [Belgian Military Mission]
