American servicemen examining Buchenwald concentration camp barracks, Weimar, 1945

Gift of Ronello Brown, from the Collection of The National WWII Museum
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Photograph. An American Army medic and other American servicemen exaiming the bunks in a barrack. Personal caption on reverse: "22. Althó rather a poor photo it is typical of many of the barracks that men were forced to live in. Perhaps one barrack might be all typhoid, etc. What you can see constituted their living quarters." Buchenwald, Weimar, Germany. 1945

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Date: 
1945
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Items from the service of Ronello Brown, who fought with the 197th Antiaircraft Automatic Weapons Battalion in Normandy, Northern France, and central Europe. Mr. Brown received the Good Conduct Bronze Star and the French Croix de Guerre.
Geography: 
Buchenwald
Latitude: 
51.017
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11.250
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Soldiers--American--Germany
Medical personnel--American--Germany
Barracks--German--Germany
Concentration camps--Germany
Barracks--German--Germany