An American soldier views an array of stones and other valuables confiscated from prisoners in the Buchenwald concentration camp and recovered by U.S. troops after the liberation of the camp.
Photograph | Photograph Number: 73025
- Photographer
- Harold M. Roberts?
- Date
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1945 May 10
- Locale
- Buchenwald, [Thuringia] Germany
- Photo Designation
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MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Buchenwald -- LIBERATION -- Artifacts/Prisoners' Property
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
An American soldier views an array of stones and other valuables confiscated from prisoners in the Buchenwald concentration camp and recovered by U.S. troops after the liberation of the camp.
Original caption reads: "German loot from Buchenwald atrocity victims. These stones are a few of the thousands of valuables the Germans removed from their victims in the Buchenwald Concentration Camp near Weimar, Germany. The loot was discovered by the First U.S. Army troops in a cave adjoining the camp."
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Record last modified: 2006-02-24 00:00:00
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