US servicemen walking around Buchenwald concentration camp, Weimar, 1945

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

Photograph, aerial. American servicemen along with civilians walking around Buchenwald concentration camp. Personal caption on reverse: "7. General view of Buchenwald. At the bottom of the photo the group is standing around the beating post as mentioned in #5." Buchenwald, Weimar, Germany. 1945

Image Information

Donor: 
Mr. Ronello Brown
Accession Number: 
2008.002.009
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
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