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Slave laborers in the Buchenwald concentration camp near Jena

1945-04-16 · Weimar · Germany

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"These are slave laborers in the Buchenwald concentration camp near Jena; many had died from malnutrition when U.S. troops of the 80th Division entered the camp." Pvt. H. Miller, Germany, April 16, 1945.

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