German soldiers standing at the graves of victims of German cruelty, Ludwigslust, Germany, 1945
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Photograph. German soldiers standing, with their hats removed, at the burial of victims of German cruelty; American soldiers in background. Official Caption: "(New Nazi horror camp found) (Page three) German soldiers stand bareheaded at the graves of these victims of German cruelty. In the background, soldiers of the 82nd U.S. Airborne Division witness the burial proceedings at Ludwigslust. 6531 H -0-." Ludwigslust, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. 1945
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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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Ludwigslust
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53.317
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11.500
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Soldiers--German--Germany
Soldiers--American--Germany
Dead persons--Germany
Funeral rites & ceremonies--Germany
Cemeteries--German--Germany