Concentration Camp Photographs: 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.
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Entrance to Buchenwald
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Showing GI's torture techniques
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Another torture technique
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Close-up of oven with partially burned corpse
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Oven with a partially burned corpse inside
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Bodies the Germans couldn't dispose of
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Corpses left on the street
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Corpses left on the street
Load of bodies
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Close-up of a truck loaded with corpses
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Corpses left on the street