Soldiers Witnessing Atrocities at Buchenwald

ID: 550 ~ Source: M. Alexis Scott ~ Creator: W.A. Scott III ~ Date: April 13, 1945
This file appears in: Liberation of Buchenwald
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Shown outside of an incinerator building are some of the bodies of the 30,000 plus killed in the two-week period prior to the arrival of some of the 183rd Engineer Combat Battalion of the 8th Corp of the 3rd Army and other soldiers.

This file appears in: Liberation of Buchenwald

By W.A. Scott III
"As we rode into Buchenwald, I can remember thinking: 'There is no place as horrible as we have been told — no atrocities — we should turn around, stop wasting time, go back to Eisenach and establish our Battalion Headquarters.' But we continued and…