11 April 1945 | American forces liberated the #Buchenwald concentration camp. Among liberated prisoners were those evacuated from #Auschwitz.
Between 1937-45 the Germans imprisoned in this camp almost 280,000 people. Over 56,000 of them were killed. buchenwald.de/en/72/
Read more about the chronology of liberation of KL Buchenwald: buchenwald.de/en/466/
"I have reported what I saw and heard, but only part of it. For most of it, I have no words."
CBS reporter Edward R. Morrow was the first reporter at Buchenwald after the liberation by @USArmy. Listen to his harrowing words on what he witnessed: collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog…
In this famous image, you can see former prisoners of the "little camp" in #Buchenwald who stare out from the wooden bunks. In the second row of bunks, seventh from the left, next to the vertical beam is Elie Wiesel who had been transferred there from #Auschwitz.
When the @USArmy reached #Buchenwald, the supreme commander of the Allied Forces, Dwight D. Eisenhower, writes: "Nothing has ever shocked me as much as that sight."
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