Bones in Incinerators at Buchenwald

ID: 551 ~ Source: M. Alexis Scott ~ Creator: W.A. Scott III ~ Date: April 13, 1945
This file appears in: Liberation of Buchenwald
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The Buchenwald camp officials tried to kill all of the 51,000 persons in the camp before Americans arrived, and also tried to hide the evidence by burning bodies in incinerators.

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…