Three photographs from the Buchenwald death camp taken by the Allies at the end of the war

Three photographs from the Buchenwald death camp taken by the Allies at the end of the war

Three large photographs from the Buchenwald camp, taken by the Allies - the liberators of the camp, at the end of World War II. The three photographs are stamped with the ink of the "Minister de l'information".

* A group of prisoners in serious physical condition.

* A group of local Germans who were forced to enter the crematorium area at the end of the war in order to see with their own eyes what their people had done.

* Skinny body prisoners near the wooden bunks as found on the day of liberation.

The liberation of the Buchenwald camp was accompanied by extensive media coverage in the press, photographs, and film diaries. The publications about what was happening in this camp were the first exposures of the Western public to the horrors of the Nazi regime in Germany. (General George Patton forced some 2,000 Weimar residents to walk five miles to the camp to see the horrors with their own eyes). Beyond the filmed and cinematic documentation, an intelligence unit of psychological warfare in the United States military has collected numerous testimonies from inmates. In the first days of the liberation, about 150 testimonies of prisoners were collected, mostly those who held various positions in the camp and could provide a broad picture of what was happening there.

Same size: 23x17 cm. Very good condition.