A large pile of emaciated corpses. Piles of clothes can be seen in the background. A soldier in black clothing stands in the back with their hands on their face. To the right is an open truck bed with additional bodies.
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A pile of corpses in the Buchenwald concentration camp

A pile of corpses in the Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation. Buchenwald, Germany, May 1945.

Together with its many satellite camps, Buchenwald was one of the largest concentration camps established within the old German borders of 1937.


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