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Body of hanging victim dangles from hook, German civilians are made to look.
رقم الكائنM2013/027:004
العنوانBody of hanging victim dangles from hook, German civilians are made to look.
المنشيءBritish War Office
الوصفThis is a United States official photograph.
This photo depicts the body of a concentration camp prisoner wearing striped clothes, with their head covered by material being hung with rope around their neck that has been tied to a hook, on a wooden construction for the purpose of displaying the victim. This scene is taking place in a yard at the Buchenwald concentration camp. Well-dressed German civilians have been brought from the nearby town has been brought to witness the atrocities that had been taking place. Surrounding the victim and the German civilians is a wooden pole fence. Behind the fence there are some German civilians as well as men who have been identified in the photo’s caption of being men of General Patton’s Third Army are looking over the fence.
There is a carbon-copy caption attached on to the back of the image which reads:
“First Publication Thursday’s Dailies 19.4.45.
U.S. Official Photograph No. EA 62977 (XC)
(Issued by OWI London through PNA)
At Camp Buchenwald, Nazi horror prison near Weimar, German civilians from the town are brought to see for themselves evidence of atrocities. Body of hanging victim dangles from hook in yard. The camp was seized by men of General Patton’s Third Army.
This photo depicts the body of a concentration camp prisoner wearing striped clothes, with their head covered by material being hung with rope around their neck that has been tied to a hook, on a wooden construction for the purpose of displaying the victim. This scene is taking place in a yard at the Buchenwald concentration camp. Well-dressed German civilians have been brought from the nearby town has been brought to witness the atrocities that had been taking place. Surrounding the victim and the German civilians is a wooden pole fence. Behind the fence there are some German civilians as well as men who have been identified in the photo’s caption of being men of General Patton’s Third Army are looking over the fence.
There is a carbon-copy caption attached on to the back of the image which reads:
“First Publication Thursday’s Dailies 19.4.45.
U.S. Official Photograph No. EA 62977 (XC)
(Issued by OWI London through PNA)
At Camp Buchenwald, Nazi horror prison near Weimar, German civilians from the town are brought to see for themselves evidence of atrocities. Body of hanging victim dangles from hook in yard. The camp was seized by men of General Patton’s Third Army.
مكان الإنتاجBergen-Belsen concentration camp
التاريخ circa 1945-04
الموضوعHolocaust, Buchenwald concentration camp, concentration camps, nazi cruelty, liberation, corpses, death, victims, executions and killings, civilians
اسم الكائنphotographs
مادةpaper
الأبعاد
- width: 201.00 mm
height: 152.00 mm
اللغة
- English
Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Mr Timothy Ring