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part iv
Still Pictures
This section contains an itemized list of photographs in the custody of the
Still Pictures Branch of the National Archives relating to the Mauthausen
Concentration Camp complex, victims and perpetrators, U.S. Army libera­
tor units and medical facilities, and war crimes proceedings. Most of the pho­
tographs cited below were taken by the U.S. Army Signal Corps at the time
of liberation.
RECORD GROUP 111, RECORDS OF THE
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER
IV.1 The Office of the Chief Signal Officer administered the U.S. Army Signal
Service (Signal Corps) with responsibility for research and development in
communications, maintenance of signal security, and collection of commu­
nications intelligence. The Signal Service also provided army photographic
and motion picture services. U.S. Army Signal Corps cameramen pho­
tographed and filmed the liberation of concentration camps in the European
Theatre of Operations as well as the proceedings of the Nuremberg war
crimes trials.
IV.2 U.S. Army Signal Corps Photographs of American Activity, 1900–1981,
(contact prints) are grouped under general subject headings (country, sub­
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