Karl Hugo Burkhardt and Dr. Waldemar Hoven entering Rheinbach Prison, Germany, July 1945
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Photograph. Karl Hugo Burkhardt and Dr. Waldemar Hoven being escorted into Rheinbach Prison. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/11/45--Buchenwald Butchers--Seated in the rear seat of a U.S. military policemens'jeep at Reinbach [sic] Prison, Germany, are Karl Hugo Burkhardt (L), former Commander of the notorious Buchenwald concentration camp, and Dr. Waldemar Hoven, described as the 'Butcher of Buchenwald,'who are awaiting trial as war criminals. Thousands of slave prisoners of many nationalities were murdered or died of starvation and disease at Buchenwald.--U.S. Signal Corps photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority--(B List out) 7079."Rheinbach Prison, Germany. 11 July 1945
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07/11/1945
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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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Rheinbach
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50.633
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6.950
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Criminals--German--Germany
Prisoners--Germany
Military police--American--Germany
Jeep automobiles--American--Germany
Prisons--Germany