Liberating Buchenwald

The following photographs from the liberation of Buchenwald were taken by Francis D. Killin, who served in the 37th Cavalry Recon. V-Corps under Gen. Courtney Hodges. They were generously donated to the Library by his son. Killin is the GI on the left in the photo above.

WARNING: Some of these photos contain graphic images

Entrance to Buchenwald
Showing GIs torture techniques	Another torture technique
Close-up of pven with partially burned corpse	Oven with partially burned corpse
	Bodies the Germans couldn't dispose of
Corpses left on the street	Corpses left on the street
Load of bodies	Close-up of truck load of corpses
Corpses left on the street