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In the Women’s Camp at Mauthausen Concentration Camp, Survivors Queue up for Soup
Until late 1943, Mauthausen housed very few female prisoners. A designation as a women’s concentration camp in 1944 paved the way for several hundred female political prisoners to be sent to…
Mauthausen
The Mauthausen concentration camp was comprised of several camps in Austria, utilizing forced labor to mine granite for Hitler’s grand architectural designs. Built in 1938, approximately 200,000…
Sixteen of the Nineteen Defendants on Trial for War Crimes Committed During the War at Dora-Mittelbau
In August 1947, an American military tribunal brought to trial nineteen of the former camp personnel to face charges for acts committed against prisoners. All but four of the defendants were found…
The Importance of Military History
The Pritzker Military Museum & Library believes that to better support and understand the issues of the servicemember and veteran community is to have a firm grasp of military history and affairs…
Armored Division Soldier with Camp Survivors at Dora-Mittelbau Concentration Camp
Taken at the liberation of Dora-Mittelbau (Nordhausen) concentration camp, Capt. Sidney L. Mizock, MD and a Sgt. Levine stand in front of ruined buildings at the camp. Captain Sidney L. Mizock, MD…
Ohrdruf Concentration Camp Survivors Reenact Torture Scenes while an American Soldier Looks On
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Courtesy of Lee T. Stinchfield
American Medical Personnel Evacuate Survivors for Medical Treatment at the Dora-Mittelbau Concentration Camp
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Courtesy of Nancy & Michael Krzyzanowski
Liberation
After defeating the German army at the Battle of the Bulge, American forces continued their push east into Germany, crossing the Rhine River in mid-March. Within days, seven American divisions were…
View of Prisoner Barracks in the Newly Liberated Ohrdruf Concentration Camp
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Courtesy of Shirley Young Bordenkircher
American Soldiers View a Gallows Erected Between Rows of Barracks in the Ohrdruf Concentration Camp
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Courtesy of Arnold Bauer Barach
Bomb Damage in Bastogne, Belgium
On the night of December 18, elements of 101st Airborne moved into the town of Bastogne to hold off the German advance and protect the vital road junction there. They were encircled by the enemy on…
Malmedy Massacre
The German attack against the U.S. 2nd Infantry Division and 99th Infantry Division along the northern shoulder of the bulge was critical to the success of Hitler’s plan to take Antwerp. For eleven…
A Procession of German Prisoners Captured with the Fall of Aachen
As U.S. forces surrounded the city of Aachen, the 26th Infantry Regiment began the offensive to take the city. Operating with only two battalions and a few tanks, the 26th attacked the city and its…
Effects of the Atomic Bomb
Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration
Surrender
Allied leaders met in Potsdam, Germany in June 1945 to discuss how the Allies would administer Europe in the wake of the Nazi surrender, while also crafting a formal ultimatum of surrender to the…
