File:NaziConcentrationCamp.gif

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In the crematorium courtyard, U.S. soldiers confront the citizens of Weimar with the corpses found there. This was the first photo of Buchenwald to be published; it appeared in the London Times on April 18, 1945.

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DescriptionNaziConcentrationCamp.gif	In the crematorium courtyard, U.S. soldiers confront the citizens of Weimar with the corpses found there. This was the first photo of Buchenwald to be published; it appeared in the London Times on April 18, 1945.
Date	Taken on 16 April 1945
Source	National Archives Washington, via the "Stiftung Gedenkstätten Buchenwald und Mittelbau-Dora" (Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation) http://www.buchenwald.de/english/index.php?p=138
Author	Walter Chichersky, U.S. Signal Corps
Permission (Reusing this file)	PD-USGOV.

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This image is a work of a U.S. military or Department of Defense employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain in the United States.

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2004-12-15 07:10 Brian0918 600×465× (106587 bytes) WWII Europe: Germany: Concentration Camps: "Piles of dead prisoners". From the National Archives.

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current	17:02, 13 October 2012	800 × 600 (161 KB)	Hohum	Levels
	20:11, 22 July 2010	800 × 600 (161 KB)	Stor stark7~commonswiki	Uploading better quality copy, from: http://www.buchenwald.de/english/index.php?p=138
	23:10, 25 May 2010	600 × 465 (104 KB)	Rlevse	{{Information \|Description={{en\|World War II Europe: Germany: Concentration Camps: "Only a few of the many people who died at these concentration camps". From the National Archives.}} \|Source=Transferred from [http://en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia]; trans