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| After being liberated by the US 1st Army, a Russian prisoner points out one of the particularly brutal guards at Buchenwald, Germany, 14 Apr 1945. Note guard’s black wound badge indicating he is combat wounded. | Bodies of victims piled in a trailer at Buchenwald concentration camp at Weimar, Germany, 14 Apr 1945 |
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| A Comet tank of British 11th Armored Division outside the gate of the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp as British troops were first arriving at the camp, 15 Apr 1945. | Aerial view of New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York, United States, 15 Apr 1945; note USS Reprisal, USS Coral Sea/Franklin D. Roosevelt, USS Kearsarge, and USS Oriskany under construction |
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| The British Army entering the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp 15 Apr 1945 as German and Hungarian guards man the gate. On the right is a loudspeaker truck to inform inmates the camp was under British authority. | Inhumane conditions at Buchenwald, 16 Apr 1945, photo 1 of 2 |
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| Inhumane conditions at Buchenwald, 16 Apr 1945, photo 2 of 2 | US troops on the Colditz Castle bridge, Sachsen, Germany, 16 Apr 1945 |
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| USS Ticonderoga steams down Puget Sound, Washington, United States on her trials after substantial repairs from battle damage, Apr 16, 1945. Photo 1 of 4. | USS Ticonderoga steams down Puget Sound, Washington, United States on her trials after substantial repairs from battle damage, Apr 16, 1945. Photo 2 of 4. |
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| USS Ticonderoga steams down Puget Sound, Washington, United States on her trials after substantial repairs from battle damage, Apr 16, 1945. Photo 3 of 4. | USS Ticonderoga steams down Puget Sound, Washington, United States on her trials after substantial repairs from battle damage, Apr 16, 1945. Photo 4 of 4. |
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| A pile of rotting corpses at the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp, 17 Apr 1945. Note some camp buildings in the background. | Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp as seen from outside the wire, 17 Apr 1945. |
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| Colditz Castle, Sachsen, Germany, late-Apr 1945 | Emaciated Hungarian woman prisoner at the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp, 17 Apr 1945. |
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| Emaciated prisoners at the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp huddled into a room, 17 Apr 1945. | Female SS guards at Bergen-Belsen being put to work by the liberating British force, 17 Apr 1945. |
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| German soldiers made to load victims of Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp onto a truck, Germany, 17 Apr 1945; note British troops in background with Sten submachine gun and Lee-Enfield rifles | SS Hauptsturmfuhrer (captain) Josef Kramer, former Commandant of the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp, while under arrest by British forces, 17 Apr 1945. After trial, he was hanged 13 Dec 1945. |
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