us-005578-irn1001274
type: RecordSet
date: 1945 April 07
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 2
has or had identifier: 1
has or had some members with language: Silent
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn1001274
note: The German officer with a cross on his sleeve at 02:28:55 also appears in Story 2243 on Film ID 867.
scope and content: German Atrocities, Ohrdruf, Germany, April 7, 1945. MPs herding civilians of Ohrdruf through shed to view bodies of victims. Germans reluctant to enter shed. Taken to outdoor crematorium. CUs, charred bodies lying in piles in mud. MCUs bodies stacked in shed. Civilians shocked. 4th Division Finds Victims of Atrocity, Ohrdruf, Germany, April 7, 1945. Corpses scattered around camp grounds. MS officer looks into shed and sees piles of dead bodies. Officer speaks to remaining prisoners who hid in woods until Germans left. MS victim of malnutrition.
title: Corpses at Ohrdruf Concentration Camp; atrocities