Photo Gallery Horrors at Buchenwald
After the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp, American soldiers confronted Weimar residents with the horrors of the camp: in the courtyard of a crematorium, they showed people a lorry loaded with corpses.
Over 1,000 Weimar residents had to visit the camp on the orders of General Patton.
US Congressmen visited the prisoner barracks at Buchenwald in April 1945, a few days after the camp's liberation.
An emaciated prisoner sits in front of a wood barrack in the so-called "Small Camp."
Bone remains pile up in the inner courtyard of the crematorium.
Barrack 56 in the Small Camp: Freed prisoners lay on their plank beds.
Armed resistance: A few hours after liberation, former prisoners arrest and capture SS officers.
Four teenage prisoners at the Buchenwald concentration camp.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Allied commander-in-chief, speaks with Generals George S. Patton and Omar N. Bradley at Ohrdurf, a subcamp of Buchenwald.
Eisenhower in Ohrdruf: Numerous bodies in front of the barracks.
