General Patton at Ohrdruf

ID: 552 ~ Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park ~ Creator: W.A. Scott III ~ Date: April 11, 1945
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General George S. Patton (with his back to camera) converses with General Omar Bradley during their tour of the newly liberated Ohrdruf concentration camp, a sub-camp of Buchenwald.

This file appears in: Seeing and Not Seeing

By W.A. Scott III
"[A friend of mine] could recall that the American track team, which blitzed with Jesse Owens for the '36 Olympics, had two Jewish dash men that they would not allow to participate because the Germans didn't want them and they…