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Focus on Liberation — Historical Film Footage

Liberation of Buchenwald

Germany, April 1945
[Silent, 0:59]

US forces liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp on April 11, 1945. This footage records examples of Nazi atrocities (shrunken head, pieces of tattooed human skin, preserved skull and organs) discovered by the liberating troops.

— National Archives - Film

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