German civilians exhuming bodies from a mass grave near the Wöbbelin concentration camp, Germany, May 1945
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Photograph. German civilians exhuming bodies from a mass grave near the Wöbbelin concentration camp under supervision of U.S. soldiers. Official Caption: "German civilians of Ludwigslust and nearby communities are forced to exhume the bodies of the Nazi atrocity victims from a mass grave near the Wobbelin concentration camp. These civilians also reburied the victims in the town square of Ludwigslust. Troops of a U.S. Airborne Division witness and direct the proceedings. 6531 F." Wöbbelin, Germany. May 1945
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1945-05-
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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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Wöbbelin
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53.400
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11.500
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Concentration camps--Germany
Mass burials--Germany
Graves--Germany
Soldiers--American--Germany
Men--Germany