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Taken on 16 April 1945

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Buchenwald Slave Laborers Liberation

Buchenwald Slave Laborers Liberation — Unknown

These are slave laborers in the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar; many had died from malnutrition when U.S. troops of the 80th Division entered the camp. The very ill man lying at the back on the lower bunk was thought to be Max Hamburger, but this is probably not true. Second row, seventh

Photograph by Private H. Miller. (Army)