The original caption for this photograph reads: “These two staring, emaciated men are liberated inmates of Lager-Nordhausen, a Gestapo concentration camp near Nordhausen, Germany. The camp, according to G-2, 104th Infantry Division, U.S. First Army, had from 3,000 to 4,000 inmates, including French, Polish, Belgian, a few Russian, and several German political prisoners. Several hundred inmates died of starvation or were shot by Gestapo men, and all of the prisoners were maltreated, beaten and starved.”
Two Men Sitting After Liberation from Lager-Nordhausen Death Camp
- 4/14/1945
Description
This primary source comes from the Collection FDR-PHOCO: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Public Domain Photographs.
National Archives Identifier: 196311
Full Citation: Photograph PHOCO-A-65639(50); WWII Europe: Germany: Concentration Camps: ‘Two men sitting after liberation from Lager-Norhausen Death Camp’; 4/14/1945; Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Public Domain Photographs, 1882 – 1962; Collection FDR-PHOCO: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Public Domain Photographs,; Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, NY. [Online Version, https://docsteach.org/document/liberated-lager-nordhausen/, March 31, 2026]
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