United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Marshall Walker Minard (1913-1988) was born in Louisiana and served in the US Army during World War II. As a member of the 182nd Field Artillery Battalion, he landed on Utah Beach in Normandy in July 1944, crossed the Rhine in March 1945, and reached Munich in April.
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The collection is unarranged.
The Marshall W. Minard photographs consist of 14 photographic prints and postcards documenting the Buchenwald concentration camp immediately following liberation and the Dachau death train. The Buchenwald photographs are captioned “Buchenwald Stalag” on the back. The images depict survivors, victims, skin with tattoos, exterior and interior of buildings, an effigy of Hitler, and American soldiers. The Dachau photographs depict victims inside and next to the open railcars of the Dachau death train.
Marshall W. Minard photographs