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Photograph Wikimedia Commons 1945-08-01 CC0

Berlin Cathedral (Berliner Dom)

Catalog Number: Alsos H42Berliner Dome from steps on National Library (Man on horse statue), Berlin, August 1, 1945Credit: AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Gift of Michaele and Terry Thurgood, Thurgood Collection1 negative (black and white; 4 x 5 inches) From AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Gift of Michaele Thurgood Haynes and Terry Thurgood, a collection that includes 200 photos and 75 letters from Sergeant Malcolm Thurgood, who was assigned to the Alsos Mission as a documentary photographer in 1945. The mission was an effort by US intelligence personnel to discover Germany’s scientific developments during WWII, focusing on their nuclear weapons project. US Army Colonel Boris Pash, a former Manhattan Project security officer, was the military commander and Samuel Goudsmit was the scientific head of the mission.

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AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Gift of Michaele Thurgood Haynes and Terry Thurgood · Berlin Cathedral (Berliner Dom) · Wikimedia Commons · CC0

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Wikimedia Commons
Creator
AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Gift of Michaele Thurgood Haynes and Terry Thurgood
Date as recorded
1945-08-01
Medium
Photograph
Hosting
hosted
Master
1127 × 1460 · 0.8 MB
Catalogued
2026-09-14

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