Hundreds of prisoners stand in rows as far as the eye can see. Most have light skin tones, shaved heads, and are wearing coats.
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Roll call in Buchenwald for new prisoners after Kristallnacht

Roll call for newly arrived prisoners, mostly Jews arrested during Kristallnacht (often referred to in English as the "Night of Broken Glass"), at the Buchenwald concentration camp. Buchenwald, Germany, 1938.


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