![While touring the newly liberated Ohrdruf camp, General Dwight Eisenhower and other high ranking USArmy officers view the bodies ... [LCID: 04649]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/3d4c9a8b-52ed-4e7e-8a80-2c5cf635ba7b.jpg "While touring the newly liberated Ohrdruf camp, General Dwight Eisenhower and other high ranking USArmy officers view the bodies ... [LCID: 04649]")
While touring the newly liberated Ohrdruf camp, General Dwight Eisenhower and other high ranking US Army officers view the bodies of prisoners who were killed during the evacuation of Ohrdruf. Ohrdruf, Germany, April 12, 1945.
Item View![American troops with the 102nd Infantry Division at a barn outside Gardelegen, where over 1,000 prisoners were burned alive by the ... [LCID: 17079]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/dcf77284-a6b6-45b1-88b6-0c8ef86a2b35.jpg "American troops with the 102nd Infantry Division at a barn outside Gardelegen, where over 1,000 prisoners were burned alive by the ... [LCID: 17079]")
US troops with the 102nd Infantry Division at a barn outside Gardelegen, where over 1,000 prisoners were burned alive by the SS. Germany, April 14, 1945.
Item View![American soldiers walk along an open, mass grave for the of victims of the Nordhausen concentration camp found at its liberation. [LCID: 04724]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/7680d724-ecb2-4497-8782-4d5546b0e8e2.jpg "American soldiers walk along an open, mass grave for the of victims of the Nordhausen concentration camp found at its liberation. [LCID: 04724]")
American soldiers walk along an open mass grave for the of victims of the Nordhausen concentration camp. US army officers ordered the residents of Nordhauen to prepare the grave for the burial of the victims. Nordhausen, Germany, April 13–14, 1945.
Item View![An American soldier and liberated prisoners of the Mauthausen concentration camp. [LCID: 74456]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/2da4aa1b-1cf5-40a8-af55-1dba1c4eaae1.jpg "An American soldier and liberated prisoners of the Mauthausen concentration camp. [LCID: 74456]")
A US soldier with liberated prisoners of the Mauthausen concentration camp. Austria, May 1945.
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Prisoners at the time of liberation of the Ebensee camp, a subcamp of the Mauthausen concentration camp. This photograph was taken by US Army Signal Corps photographer Arnold E. Samuelson. Austria, May 7, 1945.
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