KZ: Pictorial report of five concentration camps. Pictorial report of concentration camps
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 10.500 inches (26.67 cm) | Width: 8.500 inches (21.59 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm)
Creator(s)
- Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (Publisher)
- United States Office of War Information (Publisher)
Biographical History
The United States Office of War Information (OWI) was created on June 13, 1942, to centralize and control the content and production of government information and propaganda about the war. It coordinated the release of war news for domestic use, and using posters along with radio broadcasts, worked to promote patriotism, warn about foreign spies, and recruit women into war work. The office also established an overseas branch, which launched a large-scale information and propaganda campaign abroad. The government appealed to the public through popular culture and more than a quarter of a billion dollars' worth of advertising was donated during the first three years of the National Defense Savings Program. Victory in Europe was declared on May 8, 1945, and in Japan on September 2, 1945. The OWI ceased operation in September.
Archival History
The report was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2000 by Morris Pottish.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Morris Pottish
Scope and Content
A copy of the “KZ: Bildbericht aus fünf Konzentrationslagern” [KZ: Pictorial report of five concentration camps] pamphlet published in Germany in 1945. It was published quickly by the American War Information Office to increase awareness of the atrocities that had occurred. It contains post-liberation photographs at Buchenwald, Bergen-Belsen, Nordhausen, and Ohrdruf concentration camps and the site of the Gardelagen massacre.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Booklet; 28 unnumbered pgs.; ill.; 27 cm. The booklet is printed in black ink on off-white paper with a black back cover. The booklet contains 44 black-and-white photographs depicting concentration camp survivors and victims, as well as United States soldiers in five camps following liberation. The leaves are fastened by two corroded staples at the spine and the paper is discolored and worn throughout. The edges are torn and brittle with many losses, especially at the corners. The front and back covers are detached, and have many losses. Repairs to the back cover were made with tape.
front cover, upper left corner, stamped, green ink : PASSED BY / U 47830 S / ARMY EXAMINER front cover, upper left corner, handwritten, black ink : (n)ot for publication
Corporate Bodies
- Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers
- Dora (Concentration camp)
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
- United States. Office of War Information
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
- Ohrdruf (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Gardelegen Massacre, Gardelegen, Germany, 1945.
- Concentration camps--Germany--Pictorial works.
- Germany.
- Concentration camp inmates--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Pictorial works.
Genre
- Pamphlets.
- Object
- Books and Published Materials