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Nazi "souvenirs" from concentration camp

72-3312
Accession Number
72-3312
4.5x6.5 inches
Black & White
HST Keywords
Germany - Cities and Towns - Buchenwald
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Harry S. Truman Library & Museum.

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Description

Exhibit of "souvenirs" created by Nazis in Buchenwald concentration camp, near Weimar. They were seized by General Patton's Third Army. German civilians were brought from town to gaze upon shrunken human heads (left) parts of organs of victims who died of various diseases, and stenciling and tattoo markings on sections of human skin (foreground). Lamp at right was fabricated from skin of camp's dead. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."

Date(s)
April 1945