Postwar aerial view of Buchenwald concentration camps, showing the barracks.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 42923

Overview

Caption: Postwar aerial view of Buchenwald concentration camps, showing the barracks.

The lender's handwritten caption reads, "Air photo of concentration camp Buchenwald.
1. Right-extreme and center monument to 51,000 persons who died there.
2. Center with smoke stack torture chamber and mortuary."
Date: 1945
Locale: Buchenwald, [Thuringia] Germany
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Robert Michael Merritt

Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Robert Michael Merritt

Keyword: BARRACKS BUCHENWALD CONCENTRATION CAMPS GAS CHAMBERS MEMORIALS/MONUMENTS PHOTOGRAPHS (AERIAL) SMOKESTACKS VIEWS
Photo Designation: MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Buchenwald -- LIBERATION -- Views -- General