Crematorium in Buchenwald concentration camp, Weimar, 1945

Gift of Ronello Brown, from the Collection of The National WWII Museum
Description: 

Photograph. Outside of the crematorium in Buchenwald concentration camp. Personal caption on reverse: "8. As I remember right this building consisted of some laboratories and the crematory. The debris scattered on the ground there, might be most anything. Notice the insulators on the tall fence poles. A heavy voltage ran through the fence at all times." Buchenwald, Weimar, Germany. 1945

Image Information

Donor: 
Mr. Ronello Brown
Accession Number: 
2008.002.010
Date: 
1945
Location: 
Hometown: 
Branch: 
Theater of Service: 
European Theater of Operations (ETO)
Unit: 
197th Antiaircraft Automatic Weapons Battalion (Self-Propelled)
Campaign / Event: 
POW / KIA: 
Topical Subjects: 
Concentration camps--Germany
Buildings--Germany
Collection Level: 
Items from the service of Ronello Brown, who fought with the 197th Antiaircraft Automatic Weapons Battalion in Normandy, Northern France, and central Europe. Mr. Brown received the Good Conduct Bronze Star and the French Croix de Guerre.
Geography: 
Buchenwald
Latitude: 
51.017
Longitude: 
11.250
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Concentration camps--Germany
Buildings--Germany