German civilians are forced to wait in-line to tour the Buchenwald concentration camp.
- Date
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1945 April 16
- Locale
- Buchenwald, [Thuringia] Germany
- Photo Designation
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MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Buchenwald -- LIBERATION -- Victims (The Dead) -- Confrontation
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Lee T. Stinchfield
German civilians are forced to wait in-line to tour the Buchenwald concentration camp.
The original caption reads, "General Patton requested that over 1200 residents of Weimar visit the camp [Buchenwald] and see the horrors which had been wrought upon the political prisoners by the Gestapo".
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Record last modified: 2008-12-24 00:00:00
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