ADShaffer was one of eight photographers who were part of the Army’s 3rd Medical Museum and Arts Detachment. Before being deployed, he trained at the Army Medical Museum in Washington. Photos Shaffer took at the Dachau death camp were used at the Nazi war crimes trial in Nuremburg. He spent a year in Washington cataloguing his and others’ photographs for the medical museum. After leaving the Army, Shaffer worked for 37 years at the Medical College of Virginia, eventually heading up the Richmond school’s biomedical communications department.

Source: Washington Post July 13, 2020 21:00 UTC