Mock-up of a hanging post in Buchenwald concentration camp, Weimar, 1945
Gift of Ronello Brown, from the Collection of The National WWII Museum
Description:
Photograph. Dummy wearing a prisoner uniform hanging by its arms on a post with a sign; sign reads: "Ein Strafvollzug der Nazi-Kultur: Das sogenannte an den Baum hängen" Personal caption on reverse: "4. Inside the gateway in a square open block was this hanging post. The stuffed victim shows the method the Germans used to prolong suffering by hanging by the arms as shown." 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.
Geography:
Buchenwald
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51.017
Longitude:
11.250
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Punishment & torture--Germany
Concentration camps--Germany