Holocaust: Photograph of American Troops are Shown a Stack of Corpses Lying Outside of the Cremetorium of Buchenwald

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Photograph from the William A. Scott III Collection, courtesy of USHMM Photo Archives.

American troops from the 183rd Engineer Combat Battalion of the 8th Corps, U.S. Third Army, are shown a stack of corpses lying outside of the cremetorium of Buchenwald. The soldier third from left is Leon Bass. (April 11, 1945)

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