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U.S. soldiers in Germany; ruins; mass grave; leisure activities

By hmregistryMarch 22, 2015Lt. Col. Frederick Kenison Collection, United States Holocaust Memorial Museumairplanes, atrocities, bridges, corpses, destruction, flags, Germany, jeep, mass graves, military vehicles, music, office, prisoners german, river, ruins, soldiers/military american, sports

Picture is extremely dark and it is difficult to make out what it is – could be piles of bodies at a camp near a barbed wire fence or some kind of military encampment. Interior of a trailer with a personal effects (gloves, photograph of a woman hanging by the window, books, pistol and holster)

Mauthausen liberated by 11th US Armored Division

By hmregistryMarch 22, 2015Sergeant Raymond S. Buch Collection, United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumAustria, barracks, burial, concentration camps liberation, corpses, czechoslovakia, Germany, liberation, mass graves, mauthausen, pit, postwar, soldiers/military american, women

The 11th US Armored Division’s advances through Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Austria. Includes scenes of surrendering enemies and the liberation of Mauthausen.;Color: Countryside from moving tank. Liberation of German town: flames, civilians, some waving white flags, church. Views of German civilians from tank as US army passes through, 2 men with armbands carry a Red Cross