Liberated prisoners sunbathing in Buchenwald concentration camp, Weimer, 1945

Gift of Ronello Brown, from the Collection of The National WWII Museum
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Photograph. Liberated male prisoners sitting and lying on the ground next to a hospital ward. Personal caption on reverse: "19. It is hard to think of these people as living, intelligent, human beings but 5 yrs. of this life shows what can happen. Well noted men as professors have been found in this same condition." Buchenwald, Weimar, Germany. 1945

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1945
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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.
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Buchenwald
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51.017
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11.250
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Holocaust survivors--Germany
Concentration camps--Germany