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American soldiers view a pile of corpses found behind the crematorium in the newly liberated Buchenwald concentration camp.
Depicted place Buchenwald, [Thuringia] Germany
Date 14 April 1945
date QS:P571,+1945-04-14T00:00:00Z/11
institution QS:P195,Q238990
Credit line courtesy of Warren Brennan.
Source United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Photograph #07511

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21:03, 2 August 2007Thumbnail for version as of 21:03, 2 August 2007480 × 363 (63 KB)USHMMAmerican soldiers view a pile of corpses found behind the crematorium in the newly liberated Buchenwald concentration camp. *''Buchenwald, [Thuringia] Germany, April 14, 1945. [http://www.ushmm.org/ United States Holocaust Memorial Museum], courtesy of
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