Buchenwald - People from Weimar shown camp horrors
Buchenwald Concentration Camp People from Weimar are shown lamps made of human skin, two shrunken heads of Russian POWs and other items made from dead prisoners after liberation of the camp 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 15, 1945
Picture No
12000337
Media ID
45114030
Size
3544px x 2614px
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Credit
© The Bilderwelt Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library
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Source
Photograph from the Bilderwelt Collection
Date
1945
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