Title from caption on object: “German Civilians Tour Nazi Horror Mill”, April 16, 1945

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 16.9 × 21.5 cm (6 5/8 × 8 7/16 in.)

sheet: 18.1 × 22.9 cm (7 1/8 × 9 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.177.366

Artists / Makers

Walter Chichersky (artist) American, 1924 - 2008

United States Army Signal Corps (artist)

ACME Newspictures (publisher)

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Inscription

on verso, upper left printed in black ink on applied label: CONCENTRATION CAMPS, AXIS AND / RUSSIAN CAMPS; by unknown hand, upper center in red ink crossed out: Concentration Camps; upper right stamped in blue ink: MAY 6 1945; center Acme copyright stamp in red ink; bottom center printed in purple ink on applied paper: W 757902. . . . . . . . . . . . . . NEW YORK BUREAU / GERMAN CIVILIANS TOUR NAZI HORROR MILL / WEIMAR, GERMANY -- VIEWING, AT FIRST HAND, EVIDENCE / OF NAZI ATROCITIES THAT SHOCKED THE WORLD, GERMAN / CIVILIANS TOUR THE HORROR CAMP AT WEIMAR. U.S. THIRD / ARMY MP'S FORCED THE GERMANS TO EXAMINE THE EVIDENCE / AT CAMP BUCHENWALD. A TRUCKLOAD OF DEAD PRISONERS / STANDS IN BACKGROUND. / FULL 4/25/45 (RK) / CREDIT LINE (SIGNAL CORPS PHOTO FROM ACME)

Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary