Buchenwald Concentration Camp - shrunken head

Buchenwald Concentration Camp One of the two shrunken heads of Russian POWs found in the pathology block of the camp and exhibited after liberation together with tattooed and tanned skin, and a lampshade made of tattooed human skin. This head was presented as evidence at the Nuremberg Trials by U.S. Executive Trial Counsel Thomas J. Dodd. Buchenwald, near Weimar, was liberated by soldiers of the 6th Armored Division of the U.S. Third Army on April 11, 1945. The camp was described as the worst concentration camp yet to be uncovered by west wall troops. (6th Armored Division newspaper Armored Attacker'n. Liberated prisoners had killed guards already before arrival of the Americans. Germany. Date: April 16, 1945

Attacker Buchenwald Counsel Described Dodd Evidence Executions Exhibited Ilse Koch Lampshade Liberated Pathology Pows Shrunken Tanned Tattooed Uncovered Worst

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