us-005578-irn1000315
type: RecordSet
date: April-May 1945
has or had holder: us-005578
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has or had some members with language: Silent
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identifier: irn1000315
scope and content: Congressional Group, St. Valery, France, April 27, 1945. Seq: At Camp Lucky Strike for release of American prisoners of war, Congressmen, including Senator Alben W. Barkley, talk to some of the released men. Concentration Camp, Mauthausen, Austria, May 7-8, 1945. MS, CUs, inmates mobbing wagon loaded with potatoes in prison yard. MS, CU, prisoner eating spilled food from sidewalk. MCUs, German SS officer is badly beaten by liberated prisoners. Soldiers trying to get something out of Nazi's mouth. MSs, CUs, piles of emaciated bodies. Survivors near barbed wire holding out bowls.
title: Congressional group; corpses at Mauthausen