Behind the Picture: The Liberation of Buchenwald

Survivors gaze at their Allied rescuers from behind a barbed wire fence at the Buchenwald concentration camp, April 1945.
History
'40s
Margaret Bourke-White—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

On the anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald by Patton's Third Army, LIFE.com looks at the story — and at other, harrowing photographs — behind one of the indispensable images from World War II. Read More

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