A pile of human remains at Buchenwald Concentration Camp, near Weimar, Germany, Apr 1945

Caption     A pile of human remains at Buchenwald Concentration Camp, near Weimar, Germany, Apr 1945 ww2dbase
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Source    ww2dbaseUnited States Army Signal Corps
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Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust   Main article  Photos  
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Photos at Same Place Ettersberg, Weimar, Germany
Added By C. Peter Chen

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Visitor Submitted Comments

1. Anonymous says:
17 Feb 2013 06:49:45 PM

This is a pile of dry dirt and leaves... you can see piled up fullsize scaffold boards on the top right of the photo...
2. Commenter identity confirmed David Stubblebine says:
18 Feb 2013 05:46:24 PM

To: “Anonymous” above: This photo shows dirt and leaves only if every tree in the area had hollow branches. These are bones and bone fragments. The hollow of the marrows and the heads of the long bones can all be clearly seen here. There is also a large amount of particulate debris in the pile that cannot be identified through analyzing the photo; but there is far more to suggest these bits are of human origin than leaves and dirt, your anonymous & unsupported denials notwithstanding.
3. Anonymous#1 says:
17 Jan 2015 03:28:34 PM

Anonymous, You are so WRONG in what you see, I see bones from human people, Are you one that doesn't believe the murder of all the jews is a lie?
4. The truth says:
30 Nov 2021 02:24:37 PM

many people died in those camps due to the following factors: typhus, starvation due to the allied bombing of german cities whose supplies could not be delivered. Do note that if those inmates escaped those camps, they had to face the advancing red army killing people left to right.

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