Buchenwald Liberated: America Uncovers the Holocaust's Horrors
American troops burst through the gates of Buchenwald to find thousands of starving survivors and piles of unburied bodies, shattering any illusion that the war's end meant safety for its victims. This liberation forced the world to confront the industrial scale of Nazi atrocities firsthand, galvanizing immediate humanitarian aid and fueling the legal proceedings at Nuremberg that would define postwar justice.
April 11, 1945
81 years ago
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Buchenwald concentration camp
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Buchenwald concentration camp
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Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz
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Widerstand im KZ Buchenwald
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