Verle H. Brown collection

Photographs taken at Gardelegen showing victims of the atrocity, the confrontation between American servicemen and local German officials, and civilians being forced to participate in the exhumation and reburial of victims. Verle Harrison Brown (1923-2006) was born June 13, 1923 in Ogden Weber, UT, to James and Lillian Brown and had a sister named Marilyn. He served with the US Army during World War II as a Tech 5 Corporal with the 102nd Infantry Division and witnessed the afternmath of the Gardelegen atrocity. He married Cornelia Visalia Wilson in 1947.