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Prisoners at Buchenwald concentration camp

72-3242
Accession Number
72-3242
4.5x6.5 inches
Black & White
Printer-Friendly Version
NAID 348448223
Keywords
Concentration camps
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
World War, 1939-1945
HST Keywords
Germany - Cities and Towns - Weimar
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Credit:
U.S. Army Signal Corps

Harry S. Truman Library & Museum.

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Description
After being liberated, prisoners at Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany managed to find a little food. This photo is one of a series of photographs 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