Exhibits D and E: (I) 15 portraits of male SS personnel of CC Flossenbürg; (II) Photo series of exhumed corpses in Wetterfeld, taken by the US Army (May 1945)

Scope and content

Contains:

I) Exhibit D: 15 portraits of male SS personnel from CC Flossenbürg in SS uniforms. These are photographs of perpetrators taken before the liberation, which were identified by liberated Flossenbürg prisoners at the end of April 1945 and certified by the US Army. Some of them contain names and signatures of the liberated prisoners.

The names of the SS men listed below are taken from the document, Doc ID 82110044.
- D-1: Ludwig (Lutz) Baumgartner (SS-Obersturmbannführer and adjutant of the camp commandant; from March 1944 Schutzhaftlagerführer)
- D-2: SS-Oberscharführer [Arno] Hellwig
- D-3: SS-Adjutant Obersturmführer Hergert
- D-4: SS-Obersturmbannführer and camp commander Max Koegel
- D-5: SS-Unterscharführer Michels
- D-6: SS-Unterscharführer Christian Mohr ("Command Leader")
- D-7: SS-Scharführer Overdeck
- D-8: SS-Sturmscharführer Papertz
- D-9: SS-Unterscharführer Piepenstock
- D-10: SS Hauptsturmführer Willi von Richter
- D-11: SS-Untersturmführer Ring (there may be a typo and it is Otto Rink)
- D-12: SS-Unterscharführer Fritz Schlundermann (the photo shows him with - presumably - his wife)
- D-13: SS-Oberscharführer Fritz Steudel
- D-14: SS-Unterscharführer Strelau
- D-15: SS-Hauptsturmführer Volkner

II) Exhibit E: Photo series of the US Army Signal Corps of exhumed corpses, taken on 1 May 1945 in Wetterfeld (Oberpfalz).
The photographic material documents the scene of a mass execution by the SS of CC Flossenbürg prisoners on the death march, immediately before the arrival of the U.S. troops in Wetterfeld. The pits for the corpses were excavated by the population of Wetterfeld under the guidance of the SS and the local mayor Josef Groitl in an adjacent wooded area ("Gemeindehölz"). For the exhumation of 597 corpses, the US Army also called in citizens from Wetterfeld. The 17 photographs document the exhumation, including close-ups of individual corpses. Short descriptions of the individual photos (in English) can be found under Doc ID 82110046.