U.S. soldier is too late to save a victim of the Wöbbelin concentration camp, Germany, May 1945
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Photograph. U.S. soldier attempting in vain to aid former prisoner of the Wöbbelin concentration camp who died on roadside from malnutrition. Official Caption: "A former Polish inmate of the Wobbelin Camp drops dead from malnutrition at the side of the road shortly after liberation. A U.S. soldier tries in vain to administer aid to the victim. Liberated Polish women prisoners in the background pass by carrying shoes confiscated from local German women. 6531 L -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
Latitude:
53.400
Longitude:
11.500
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Concentration camps--Germany
Prisoners--Germany
Dead persons--Germany
Soldiers--American--Germany