Liberation of concentration camps

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Maymon, Paul War's End
Paul Maymon [Annotator’s Note: with the 17th Field Artillery Regiment] was active in the bitter fighting through the...
Johnson, Alfred War's End
Alfred A. Johnson, Jr. moved south after crossing the Rhine [Annotator's Note: Rhine River, Germany] and entered...
Hihn, Stewart War's End
Stewart Hihn [Annotator's Note: with the 222nd Infantry Regiment, 42nd Infantry Division] was reminded why they were...
Day, Morris "Gene" War's End
Morris Eugene Day ended up in the Ruhr Pocket [Annotator's Note: a massive Allied encirclement of German forces in the...
Schmidt, Vernon War's End
[Annotator's Note: After capturing Mainz, Germany,] Vernon Schmidt and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company E, 358th...
Beilman, Robert War's End
Robert Lewis Beilman and his unit [Annotator's Note: 1st Battalion, 242nd infantry Regiment, 42nd Infantry Division]...
Power, James War's End
As the war continued, James Moore Power [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 55th Armored Infantry Battalion, 11th...
Loges, Richard War's End
Richard "Dick" Loges [Annotator's Note: with Company H, 2nd Battalion, 180th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division...
Willis, Meade War's End
Meade Willis was at Dachau [Annotator's Note: serving with the 103rd Infantry Division which liberated Dachau...
Smith, Charles War's End
Charles R. Smith [Annotator's Note: with Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 417th Infantry Regiment, 76th Infantry...
Weber, Norman War's End
Norman Weber has a significant and raw memory of how the war ended. The family had to flee their home. It was the end...
Ridyard, Herbert War's End
Herbert W. Ridyard joined the 94th Division [Annotator's Note: Ridyard served on a heavy machine gun crew in Company H...
Carter, Donald War's End
Don Carter's outfit's [Annotator's Note: Battery B, 44th Field Artillery Battalion, 4th Infantry Division] second...
McNeely, Walter War's End
During World War 2, Walter McNeely was working as a spy in Germany, collecting information to pass on to the French...
Phillips, James War's End and Going Home
James W. Phillips recalled that the warfare felt less heavy after the Battle of the Bulge [Annotator's Note: Battle of...
Flanagan, Earl War's End and Occupation
Earl Flanagan and his unit [ Annotator's Note: 71st Infantry Division] headed into Austria, where they liberated the...
Bell, Cecil War's End and Postwar Life
Cecil K. Bell crossed near Corsica to Southern France [Annotator's Note: during Operation Dragoon, Provence, Southern...
Bassemir, Robert War's End and Postwar Life
When Robert Bassemir arrived at Cologne [Annotator's Note: Köln (Cologne), Germany with Company I, 3rd Battalion, 415th...
Allen, Warren "Bill" War's End and Postwar Life
When Warren William "Bill" Allen, Junior's unit [Annotator's Note: Battery C, 335th Field Artillery Battalion, 87th...
Bass, Leon War's End and Segregation
The war ended and the president [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States] died...
Schultz, Philip Wartime Photographs
Philip Schultz reviews photographs in his collection of various on and off duty activities while in Europe during and...
Camacho, Arturo War’s End and Home
When Japan surrendered, Camacho remembers, the emperor spoke on the radio. He recalls that his Japanese boss was called...
Weinreich, Frieda War’s End and Liberation
Frieda Weinreich remembered two girls who ran away from a work camp and ended up coming to the Parschnitz Slave Labor...
Moran, John "Jack" War’s End, Displaced Persons and Buchenwald
John Moran says that there was not much humor while in the war. He saw things that were funny, like a tank driving over...
Spint, Robert Work Camps and German Jets
The first time Robert Spint saw a work camp [Annotator's Note: while serving with the 92nd Cavalry Reconnaissance...
Bassett, Billy Wounded and War's End
Billy P. Bassett and his unit [Annotator's Note: 11th Armored Division] headed into combat during the Battle of the...
A corpse lies on the floor of the Wöbbelin concentration camp sleeping quarters, Germany, May 1945
Photograph. The body of a dead prisoner on the floor of sleeping quarters at the Wöbbelin concentration camp. Official...
A man stokes a fire in a crematorium oven, Dachau, 1945
Photograph. Civilian man displaying human remains in Dachau crematorium oven. Printed caption on photo front: "Human...
A murdered child and infant at an unknown concentration camp, likely in Europe, circa 1945
An American soldier looks at the bodies of a murdered child and infant at an unknown concentration camp. Likely Europe.
A pile of bones and ashes at an unknown concentration camp at an unknown location in Europe circa 1945
A pile of bones and ashes at an unknown concentration camp. Unknown location in Europe.
A starving prisoner is carried by comrades at the Wöbbelin concentration camp, Germany, May 1945
Photograph. Fellow prisoners carrying a starving prisoner, who previously escaped, into liberated Wöbbelin...
A victim of the Gardelegen massacre in Gardelegen, Germany on 15 April 1945
A victim of the Gardelegen massacre. Gardelegen, Germany. 15 April 1945
American generals at the liberation of a concentration camp in Ohrdruf, Thuringia, Germany on 12 April 1945
Generals George S. Patton, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Omar N. Bradley view the horrors of Ohrdruf Concentration Camp....
American generals at the liberation of a concentration camp in Ohrdruf, Thuringia, Germany on 12 April 1945
Generals George S. Patton, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Omar N. Bradley view the horrors of Ohrdruf Concentration Camp....
American servicemen examining Buchenwald concentration camp barracks, Weimar, 1945
Photograph. An American Army medic and other American servicemen exaiming the bunks in a barrack. Personal caption on...
An emaciated concentration camp victim, likely in Europe circa 1945
An emaciated concentration camp victim. Unknown location, likely Europe.

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