German POWs viewing footage of German war atrocities, New York City, July 1945
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Photograph. German POWs, sitting in a movie theater in New York City, cover their faces while viewing footage of German murder camps. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/3/45--German prisoners shocked by atrocity pictures--This is a view of the moving pictures theater in the U.S. Army's Halloran General Hospital in New York on June 26 when German prisoners of war were shown the official films of German murder camps. Many of the prisoners covered their eyes.--International news photo through OWI Radiophoto--approved by appropriate military authority--Serviced by Rome OWI (List C out) 6970."Staten Island, New York. 03 July 1945
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07/03/1945
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Items from the service of Isaac "Ike" Bethel Utley, who was born in Smith Mills, Kentucky on 3 March 1920. Ike enlisted in the Army Air Corps on 19 January 1942. He was shipped overseas to the European Theatre and worked with a supply division based out of the city of Naples with an office set up in a residential villa. Utley worked with the Office of War Information and used their photographs in news articles to inform soldiers of the progress of the war. At war's end, Utley returned stateside. A trunk full of over 800 photographs from the O.W.I. arrived on his doorstep from his office in Italy, sender unknown. This collection consists of those photographs.
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Staten Island
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40.583
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-74.150
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Prisoners of war--German-- New York
Motion picture theaters--New York
Atrocities--German