Photos taken by Sgt. Earl F. Swenson, a soldier in Patton's army that liberatedBuchenwald in April 1945.
He had a Kodak Brownie camera with him and captured some of the images of the camp.
Photos taken by Sgt. Earl F. Swenson, from Patton's army that liberatedBuchenwald in April 1945.
Photos taken by Sgt. Earl F. Swenson, from Patton's army that liberatedBuchenwald in April 1945.
Photos taken by Sgt. Earl F. Swenson, from Patton's army that liberatedBuchenwald in April 1945.
Aerial photograph of Buchenwald showing destruction by American bombers
American soldiers entering the Buchenwald concentration camp following liberation.
Mound of bodies found at Buchenwald. U.S. soldiers look on.
Dr. Waldemar Hoven, former chief doctor at Buchenwald, testifies in his own defense at the Doctors Trial.
The prisoners' orchestra in Buchenwald concentration camp.
Members of a U.S. Congressional committee investigating Nazi atrocities walk through a prisoner barracks in Buchenwald.
A survivor holds up his shirt to display his emaciated condition in the newly liberated camp.
Photograph from Sgt John Poulos, MP in the 512th MP Battalion, Gen Patton 3rd Army. An early liberator of Buchenwald, he took pictures with his personal camera.
Prisoners of the "little camp" in Buchenwald stare out from the wooden bunks. Elie Wiesel is in the second row of bunks, seventh from the left.
Ilse Koch takes the stand for her final statement at the trial of 31 former camp personnel and prisoners from Buchenwald.
Ilse Koch, wife of the former commandant of Buchenwald concentration camp, on trial at Dachau. She was known as the �Bitch of Buchenwald.�
Entrance to Buchenwald. Photo taken by Francis D. Killin, 37th Cavalry Recon. V-Corps, Gen. Courtney Hodges.
Photo taken by Francis D. Killin, 37th Cavalry Recon. V-Corps, Gen. Courtney Hodges.
Showing GIs torture techniques.Photo taken by Francis D. Killin, 37th Cavalry Recon. V-Corps, Gen. Courtney Hodges.
Photo taken by Francis D. Killin, 37th Cavalry Recon. V-Corps, Gen. Courtney Hodges.
Photo taken by Francis D. Killin, 37th Cavalry Recon. V-Corps, Gen. Courtney Hodges.
Close up of oven with partially burned corpse. Photo taken by Francis D. Killin, 37th Cavalry Recon. V-Corps, Gen. Courtney Hodges.
Oven with partially burned corpse. Photo taken by Francis D. Killin, 37th Cavalry Recon. V-Corps, Gen. Courtney Hodges.
Photo taken by Francis D. Killin, 37th Cavalry Recon. V-Corps, Gen. Courtney Hodges.
Bodies the Germans couldn't dispose of. Photo taken by Francis D. Killin, 37th Cavalry Recon. V-Corps, Gen. Courtney Hodges.
Corpses left on the street. Photo taken by Francis D. Killin, 37th Cavalry Recon. V-Corps, Gen. Courtney Hodges.
Photo taken by Francis D. Killin, 37th Cavalry Recon. V-Corps, Gen. Courtney Hodges.
Photo taken by Francis D. Killin, 37th Cavalry Recon. V-Corps, Gen. Courtney Hodges.
Photo taken by Francis D. Killin, 37th Cavalry Recon. V-Corps, Gen. Courtney Hodges.
New prisoners at Buchenwald undress before being washed and shaved.
Newly-arrived prisoners line up for registration at Buchenwald
Photo taken by Sgt John Poulos, MP in the 512th MP Battalion, General Patton�s 3rd Army. He was an early liberator of Buchenwald.
Photo taken by Sgt John Poulos, MP in the 512th MP Battalion, General Patton�s 3rd Army. He was an early liberator of Buchenwald.
Photo taken by Sgt John Poulos, MP in the 512th MP Battalion, General Patton�s 3rd Army. He was an early liberator of Buchenwald.
Photo taken by Sgt John Poulos, MP in the 512th MP Battalion, General Patton�s 3rd Army. He was an early liberator of Buchenwald.
Photo taken by Sgt John Poulos, MP in the 512th MP Battalion, General Patton�s 3rd Army. He was an early liberator of Buchenwald.
Photo taken by Sgt John Poulos, MP in the 512th MP Battalion, General Patton�s 3rd Army. He was an early liberator of Buchenwald.
Photo taken by Sgt John Poulos, MP in the 512th MP Battalion, General Patton�s 3rd Army. He was an early liberator of Buchenwald.
Photo taken by Sgt John Poulos, MP in the 512th MP Battalion, General Patton�s 3rd Army. He was an early liberator of Buchenwald.
Postcard sent by from Buchenwald by inmate # 3120,
Gustav Kalouch, to his parents in Prague
Registration for newly-arrived prisoners at Buchenwald.
A Russian survivor of Buchenwald, liberated by the 3rd Armored Division of the U.S. First Army, identifies a former camp guard who brutally beat prisoners.Z
Survivors lie on wooden bunks that are four tiers high in a barracks in Buchenwald.
Survivors lie on wooden bunks that are four tiers high in a barracks in Buchenwald.
Survivors lie on wooden bunks that are four tiers high in a barracks in Buchenwald.
Survivors in Barracks
Survivors in Barracks
Survivors in the latrine
Survivors in the hospital
Quadruple muffle Topf Crematorium at Buchenwald after liberation. This becomes one of the icon-like images of destruction.
Washing and shaving newly arrived prisoners at Buchenwald.
Buchenwald Memorial
Showing GIs torture techniques.Photo taken by Francis D. Killin, 37th Cavalry Recon. V-Corps, Gen. Courtney Hodges.
