Buchenwald

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On Wednesday, April 11, 1945, LIFE photographer Margaret Bourke-White was with U.S. General George Patton’s troops when they liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp.  Forty-three thousand people had been murdered there.  Patton was so outraged he ordered his men to march German civilians through the camp so they could see with their own eyes what their nation had wrought.

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