Corpses of Buchenwald concentration camp prisoners, Weimar, 1945

Gift of Ronello Brown, from the Collection of The National WWII Museum
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Photograph. Emaciated corpses of Buchenwald concentration camp prisoners; wreaths are hanging near the corpses; the corpses of two German men are in the background. Buchenwald, Weimar, Germany. 1945

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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.
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Buchenwald
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51.017
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11.250
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Concentration camps--Germany
Holocaust victims--Germany
World War, 1939-1945--Casualties--German--Germany