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Hospital cribs at Buchenwald concentration camp

72-3224
Accession Number
72-3224
6.5x4.5 inches
Black & White
Printer-Friendly Version
NAID 348448187
Keywords
Concentration camps
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
World War, 1939-1945
HST Keywords
Germany - Cities and Towns - Buchenwald
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Credit:
U.S. Army Signal Corps

Harry S. Truman Library & Museum.

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Description
Prisoners in the "hospital" cribs at Buchenwald concentration camp. This photo is one of a group of photographs taken shortly after the liberation of the infamous camp near Weimar, Germany. The photographs were taken by a rehabilitation officer of the U.S. Army Chief Surgeon's office when he arrived at the camp three days after Weimar was taken by the U.S. Third Army. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."
Date(s)
April 1945