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Russian, Polish and Dutch slave laborers

72-3225 (untitled)
Accession Number
72-3225
6.5x4.5 inches
Black & White
Printer-Friendly Version
NAID 348448189
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
These Russian, Polish and Dutch slave laborers interned at the Buchenwald concentration camp averaged 160 pounds each prior to entering the camp. Their average weight after 11 months of imprisonment was 70 pounds. U.S. troops of the 80th Division liberated the camp. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."
Date(s)
April 1945