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Liberated prisoners with a U.S. soldier (centre) in a barrack at the Little Camp, 14 April 1945

Survivors in Barrack 56 of the Little Camp, 16 April 1945

Liberated prisoner in front of a barrack at the Little Camp, 18 April 1945

Personnel from the U.S. Army's 120th Evacuation Hospital loading a survivor from the Little Camp into an ambulance, post 14 April 1945

The Americans confront 1,000 Weimar residents with the crimes perpetrated at the Buchenwald concentration camp, 16 April 1945

Weimar residents in the liberated camp. In the background, former prisoners on a barrack-roof, 16 April 1945

Congressmen from the United States visit the crematorium, 24 April 1945

Armed prisoners capture SS-guards near the liberated camp, 11 April 1945

Barrack with the slogan: “Hitler must die in order for Germany to live.” In front of it a gallows, on which a Hitler doll hangs, post 20 April 1945

Together with an older prisoner three liberated children stand on a barbed-wire fence, post 11 April 1945

Jewish prisoner Max Cantor, 41, from Holland, 21 April 1945

Katalin Boros, 21, from Hungary, one of the surviving women from the Penig satellite camp, 17 April 1945

First funeral service for the dead of the concentration camp. The survivors make a pledge later to become known as the “Buchenwald Oath”

Liberated Czechs before returning to their native land, May 1945

Jewish girls and boys before their departure to France from the Displaced Persons Center in Buchenwald, 5 June 1945