| Original caption: “Bones of anti-Nazi German women still are in the crematoriums in the German concentration camp at Weimar, Germany, taken by the United States Third Army. Prisoners of all nationalities were tortured and killed.” Opened crematorium incinerators, inside which human remains can be seen. On the orders of United States Army General George S. Patton (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945), commanding 3rd Army, who had inspected Buchenwald the previous day, 1,000 citizens of Weimar are taken on a tour of the concentration camp. Major Lorenz C. Schmuhl (1898 – September 2, 1988) is appointed commanding officer of the camp. Armed with a camera, Signal Corps photographer Private 1st Class Walter Chichersky (December 6, 1924 – April 14, 2008), 166th Signal Photographic Company, documented their trip on foot from Weimar to the ovens in the Buchenwald Crematorium. News correspondents from all over the world visited the camp and made verbal and visual records of the conditions there. Throughout the rest of April and well into May, they were joined by a seemingly endless stream of delegations of the International Red Cross, the American Congress, the British parliament, American publishers and individual public figures. | |
| Image Filename | wwii0583.jpg |
| Image Size | 765.05 KB |
| Image Dimensions | 3000 x 2303 |
| Photographer | Walter Chichersky |
| Photographer Title | United States Army Signal Corps |
| Caption Author | Written or Adapted by Jason McDonald |
| Date Photographed | April 23, 1945 |
| Location | Konzentrationslager Buchenwald |
| City | Weimar |
| State or Province | Thuringia |
| Country | Germany |
| Archive | National Archives and Records Administration |
| Record Number | NWDNS-111-SC-203461 |
| Status | Caption ©2026 MFA Productions LLC Please Do Not Duplicate or Distribute Without Permission; Image in the Public Domain |
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