| Caption | Dwight Eisenhower and other officers inspecting the remains of a German attempt to destroy the remains of dead Jewish prisoners at Ohrdruf Concentration Camp, Gotha, Germany, 12 Apr 1945 ww2dbase | |||||||||||||||||||
| Source | ww2dbaseUnited States Holocaust Memorial Museum | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Added By | C. Peter Chen | |||||||||||||||||||
| Added Date | 2 Feb 2011 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| WW2-Era Place Name | Ohrdruf, Gotha, Germany |
| Lat/Long | 50.8333, 10.7333 |
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"All right, they're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us... they can't get away this time."Lt. Gen. Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller, at Guadalcanal
7 Jan 2018 02:12:45 PM
The Wikipedia article said the prisoners, up to 20,000, were from ALL OVER Eastern Europe and included captured Russians, Polish, etc as well as Jewish.