German civilians exhuming Wöbbelin concentration camp victim from mass grave, Germany, June 1945
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Photograph. German civilians exhuming Wöbbelin concentration camp victim from mass grave; U.S. servicemen standing nearby and taking pictures. Official Caption: [damaged] "Under direction of U.S. Airbo. . . Wigslust dig graves in the to. . . Wobbelin camp victims. Two . . .square May 7. 1945, and an. . . the highest Nazi official of. . . in the town of Schwerin. 6531." Wöbbelin, Germany. June 1945
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1945-06-
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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
Dead persons--Germany
Mass burials--Germany
Soldiers--American--Germany
Men--Germany