| Most of these photos are of the atrocity at a barn outside Gardelegen, Germany in April 1945. | ||
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| Al Goldman, Bob Simmer, Jascha Heifetz, accompanist in Germany during the War, around April or May 1945. | Al Goldman seated on front porch of Hitler's home at Berchtegarden in Austria - taken shortly after the surrender. | Unidentified group At Gardelegen, Germany, April 1945. |
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| View inside the barn door where prisoners were burned alive | Sgt. Lewis standing in front of barn with some bodies that had been retrieved behind him | Two men from our platoon in front of bodies being carried out from the barn |
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| Men & boys we requisitioned from the town of Gardelegen to dig burial plots | Germans digging bodies out of the pit that the SS had put them in | Two men from our Company sitting with bodies that the Germans had pulled out of the pit for burial |
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| Bodies awaiting burial | Line up of more bodies for burial | |
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| More of the same | Lining up burial plots in a row | Long view of digging graves |
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| More bodies | Germans carrying bodies to graves for burial | Long view of part of the cemetery |
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| Late in the afternoon - In the background, Gardelegen citizens who had been digging graves line up to return to town | Sign that General Eisenhower ordered erected in front of the cemetery, with explanation of what happened there | Partially completed cemetery with barn still smoldering in background |
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| Two men who tried to infiltrate the German paratrooper camp where we were staying across the road from the cemetery. We shot them. | Close-up of the dead infiltrators | Carrying away the body of one of the infiltrators |
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| Infiltrator of our camp whom we shot and killed | Our squad truck with all the barracks bags and equipment we carried with us as we chased the Germans | |
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Many thanks to Alan B. Goldman of Company
B for contributing
his photos, and to his daughters for scanning, formatting the pics and preparing the PDF file of photos with explanations. |
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| Let us not forget! | ||
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