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German civilians under U.S. military escort are forced to view a wagon piled with corpses in the newly liberated Buchenwald concentration camp.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 74603
German civilians under U.S. military escort are forced to view a wagon piled with corpses in the newly liberated Buchenwald concentration camp. Original caption reads: "German civilians are forced to look at a truckload of dead Allied and political prisoners at Buchenwald camp. Under U.S. military escort, the civilians were forced to view all the evidence of atrocities in the camp."

German civilians under U.S. military escort are forced to view a wagon piled with corpses in the newly liberated Buchenwald concentration camp.

Original caption reads: "German civilians are forced to look at a truckload of dead Allied and political prisoners at Buchenwald camp. Under U.S. military escort, the civilians were forced to view all the evidence of atrocities in the camp."

Date
1945 April 16
Locale
Buchenwald, [Thuringia] Germany
Photo Designation
MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Buchenwald -- LIBERATION -- Victims (The Dead) -- Confrontation
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Harold Royall

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Rights and Restrictions

Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Harold Royall
Source Record ID: 111-SC-203472 (Album 3208)
National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
Copyright: Public Domain
Source Record ID: 111-SC-203472 (Album 3208)
Franklin D. Roosevelt Library
Copyright: Public Domain
Provenance: US Army Signal Corps
Source Record ID: 80-259 (11)
Second Record ID: FDRL 80-259
Published Source
KZ: Bildbericht aus funf Konzentrationslagern - #1
 
Record last modified: 2013-02-19 00:00:00
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