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Photographed by William Alexander Scott III.
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American troops, including African-American soldiers from the Headquarters and Service Company of the 183rd Engineer Combat Battalion, 8th Corps, U.S. 3rd Army, view corpses stacked behind the crematorium during an inspection tour of the Buchenwald concentration camp. [Oversized print] Among those pictured is Leon Bass (the soldier third from left).
Depicted place Buchenwald, [Thuringia] Germany
Date 17 April 1945
date QS:P571,+1945-04-17T00:00:00Z/11
Credit line courtesy of William Alexander Scott III.
Source United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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