Blanket-wrapped prisoners huddle near a corpse at the Wöbbelin concentration camp, Ludwigslust, Germany, 1945
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Photograph. Blanket-wrapped prisoners huddled near beds in a brick-walled room. Official Caption: "Blanket-wrapped prisoners at the Wobbelin Camp huddle near the body of a dead comrade in one of the buildings used as sleeping quarters. 6531I -0-." Wöbbelin concentration camp, near Ludwigslust, 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:
Concentration camps--Germany
Prisoners--Germany
Dead persons--Germany
Blankets--Germany