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An American soldier stands next to a shrunken head perched on a windowsill in a building in Buchenwald.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 09814

An American soldier stands next to a shrunken head perched on a windowsill in a building in Buchenwald.

Overview

Caption: An American soldier stands next to a shrunken head perched on a windowsill in a building in Buchenwald.
Date: Circa 1945 April 11
Locale: Buchenwald, [Thuringia] Germany
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Virginia Longest

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Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Virginia Longest

Source Record ID: Collections: 1992.9

Keywords & Subjects

Keyword: ARTIFACTS BUCHENWALD CONCENTRATION CAMPS EVIDENCE HUMAN REMAINS POLES SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN) WAR CRIMINALS/TRIALS
Photo Designation: MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Buchenwald -- LIBERATION -- Artifacts/Prisoners' Property

Record last modified:: 2015-04-16 00:00:00
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