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Foto afkomstig van de American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, dat gevestigd was in de J.Vermeerstraat te Amsterdam. Karl Rahm, 1907. Was in 1941 kort in Nederland. Hij werd in Februari 1944 bevordert tot SS-Sturmbahnführer en commandant van Theresienstadt. Voor een bezoek van het Rode Kruis had hij de opdracht Theresienstadt er zogenaamd mooi uit te laten zien. Daarna had hij het toezicht bij ...

West Kapelle, Holland. German bunkers dug deep in the sides of sand dunes are used by Dutch families whose homes were destroyed when the dikes were bombed. With salvaged belonging they have made these cave dwellings comfortable, but soap to keep up their traditional tidiness is the greatest problem. A distribution of American Red Cross laundry soap made wash day possible for this family.

'Free food for the Dutch. Dutch volunteers unload a truck which brought Allied food to Utrecht, Holland, for free distribution to the people in June, 1945. Allied relief shipments of food for the Dutch have been sent to Holland in large consignments since the German surrender, and before that thousands of tons were dropped from Allied planes, to avert possible famine caused by Germans breaking the ...

Civil affairs in Normandy. The Mayors of six liberated French towns discuss with Allied Civil Affairs officers the problems of food storage and distribution for the areas they represent. For some time before the Allies landed in France, British and American officers of the Civil Affairs Division (G-5) of Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force prepared for tasks which they now hold with the ...

Lifeblood of the allied armies. Sergeant James T. Hays of McComb, Mississippi, opens a vat value to allow gas being dedrummed to flow into a settling tank (background) in the Seventh U.S. Army battle sector of Eastern France. The American soldier is attached to the Petroleum Distribution Company, a special U.S. Army engineer organization which constructed the oil pipe line stretching from Normandy ...

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