The corpses of victims of German torture at the Wöbbelin concentration camp, Germany, May 1945
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Photograph. The corpses of victims of German torture lying in and near a doorway. Official Caption: "This is the 'House of the Dead'. Innumerable victims of the Germans in Wobbelin lie where they were thrown by sadistic guards. Some of the bodies found were burned almost beyond recognition and systemic torture of the inmates was revealed by the physical condition of most of the survivors. 6531 C -0-" 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:
Dead persons--Germany
Concentration camps--Germany
Prisoners--Germany