Captain Alois Liethen
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Captain Liethen was an intelligence officer who was at Ohrdruf to investigate the camp for the US military. http://www.scrapbookpages.com/Ohrdruf/Ohrdruf02.html
Captain Alois Liethen also believed the stories told by the survivors, for example, the allegation that prisoners at Ohrdruf were whipped for the slightest infraction of the rules, although in 1942, long before the Ohrdruf camp was in existence, Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler had forbidden the SS men to strike the prisoners.http://www.scrapbookpages.com/Ohrdruf/Ohrdruf01.html
In the photo above, the man on
the far right wearing a dark jacket is a Dutch survivor of the camp who served
as a guide for the American generals on their visit. The second man from the
right is Captain Alois Liethen, who is interpreting for General Bradley to his
left and General Eisenhower in the center of the photo. The man to the left of
General Eisenhower is Benjamin B. Ferencz, who is
taking notes. On the far left is one of the survivors of Ohrdruf.
Ohrdruf subcamp
The "Ritchie Boys" were US
soldiers who were trained in intelligence work, psychological warfare, and enemy
interrogation at Camp Ritchie, Maryland during World War II. Most of the 10,000
trainees were young Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany or Austria; they had come
to America to escape persecution and Fascism, before the war began. They came
alone, some as young as 15, leaving their families behind.
The Jewish refugees were selected
to be the interrogators of captured German POWs because of their language skills
and their intimate knowledge of German culture and customs. They practiced first
on German POWs that were brought to America after being captured in North
Africa. After completing a rigorous training course at Camp Ritchie, they were
sent to Europe in the summer of 1944, after the Normandy invasion.
http://www.scrapbookpages.com/RitchieBoys.html
The photo above shows General Dwight D. Eisenhower viewing the gallows at Ohrdruf. The photo above shows General Dwight D. Eisenhower viewing the gallows at Ohrdruf. Standing to the left of the general, and partially hidden by a pole, is Captain Alois Liethen