Jan 1, 1960 - Forgotten Crimes Of Buchenwald: Seventeen years after the Russians liberated East Germany, Buchenwald still stands as a grim reminder of the horror of the Nazi regime. The infamous concentration camp for political prisoners, near eipzig, has been set up by the Communists as a museum. Today visitors can still see the torture chambers, the celles, the crematorium, the experimental operating theater, unchanged except that the stench of human misery is exchanged for an air of sanitary eleanlinees.But such is the short memory of the world that few people come to Buchenwald
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4064 x 5020 px | 34.4 x 42.5 cm | 13.5 x 16.7 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
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Jan 1, 1960 - Forgotten Crimes Of Buchenwald: Seventeen years after the Russians liberated East Germany, Buchenwald still stands as a grim reminder of the horror of the Nazi regime. The infamous concentration camp for political prisoners, near ~eipzig, has been set up by the Communists as a museum. Today visitors can still see the torture chambers, the celles, the crematorium, the experimental operating theater, unchanged except that the stench of human misery is exchanged for an air of sanitary eleanlinees.But such is the short memory of the world that few people come to Buchenwald. Our photographer saw only two visitors during a day spent there. Death Cellar - in the crematorium, reasoner were dragged down here, hung from the from hooks in the wall and beated to death. (Credit Image: Keystone Pictures USA/ZUMAPRESS)