Holocaust: Photograph of American Soldiers With a Stockpile of German Arms and Ammunition at the Gate to Buchenwald

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Photograph from the National Archives, courtesy of USHMM Photo Archives.

American soldiers with a stockpile of German arms and ammunition at the gate to Buchenwald. The ammunition was part of a cache of arms taken from SS guards. Survivors in the background are being transported to a DP camp, where they will be segregated according to nationality, and await repatriation. (May - June 1945)