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Buchenwald Concentration Camp
Amer. soldier holding tanned pieces of tattooed human skin taken fr. the bodies of prisoners chosen to be killed by the inspector wife of the Nazi camp director, because she liked their tattoos & wanted to use them to make purses & lampshades.
Location:Buchenwald, Germany
Date taken:April 13, 1945
Photographer:Margaret Bourke-White
Size:1151 x 1280 pixels (16.0 x 17.8 inches)

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