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SC­392233 Overview of Ebensee Concentration Camp, May 1945
RECORD GROUP 208, RECORDS OF
THE OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION
IV.3 The Office of War Information (OWI) was established in 1942 to for­
mulate and execute information programs to promote, in the United States
and abroad, understanding and progress of the war effort and wartime poli­
cies of the U.S. Government.
IV.4 Photographic records of the OWI Picture Division relating to U.S.
military operations, prisoners of war, refugees and displaced persons, and
concentration camps in the European Theater of Operations are located
in the series AA (The Allies and Axis, 1942–1945) and YE (Yanks in the
ETO). Overall arrangement of prints and negatives is alphabetically by
subject. Most individual photographs are identified by a code indicating
record group, series, box, folder, and item. (For example, the code 208AA­
206B­1 indicates Record Group 208, AA Series, box 206, folder B, item 1.)
Many images disseminated by the OWI were acquired through intergov­
ernmental agency cooperation, in particular from the U.S. Army Signal
Corps. Items from Series AA and YE relating to the liberation of
Mauthausen and its sub­camps and surrounding areas and repatriation
of released inmates are listed below.
AA Series:
208AA­127F­6 View of ovens of Mauthausen, May 1945
208AA­206B­1 Liberation of Gusen Concentration Camp, May 1945
208AA­314A­1 French nationals released from concentration camps in
Austria on a U.S. Flying Fortress taking off from Linz,
Austria, July 1945
208AA­314A­2 Before boarding planes, French displaced persons are
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