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German civilians are forced to wait in-line to tour the Buchenwald concentration camp.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 73032
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".

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".

Date
1945 April 16
Photo Designation
MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Buchenwald -- LIBERATION -- Victims (The Dead) -- Confrontation
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Lee T. Stinchfield
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About This Photograph

Biography
Colonel Frank E Stinchfield, MD served as a physician in the liberating forces medical team stationed at Buchenwald.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Lee T. Stinchfield
 
Record last modified: 2008-12-24 00:00:00
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