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| | Buchenwald Concentration Camp was liberated by 6th Armored Division of US Third Army (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) |
 | | On April 11, 1945, the 6th Armored Division of the US Third Army, approaching Weimar from the northwest, would stumble upon Buchenwald, one of the massive main concentration camps, which was on a wooded hill called the Ettersberg, 8 kilometers north of the historic town which was the citadel of German culture. |
 | | Another of her pictures, taken that day, shows a group of unsmiling male inmates, who were privileged Communist political prisoners, lined up in front of a barbed wire fence in the camp. |
 | | The American army was determined that the ordinary German people should see the depths of depravity to which their Nazis leaders had sunk. |
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