C-7-2

Item — Box: 5

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

This colleciton contains panels and framed photographs from a 2010 exhibit shown at the University of Alabama in Huntsville's M. Louis Salmon Library. Also included is the website designed to support the exhibit.

Dates

Creation: 2010

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research in the Archives & Special Collections reading room. Handling guidelines and use restrictions will be communicated and enforced by archives staff members.

Biographical / Historical

Soldiers of the 3rd U.S. armored division experience a horrifying shock when they discover the camp in the Boelcke Barracks at Nordhausen on April 11, 1945, finding a handful of surviving prisoners intermingled with hundreds of corpses. The latter are buried in communal graves by men from Nordhausen commandeered by the Americans. (All the photos are from the National Archives, Washington D. C.)