Three photographs of Buchenwald. Top: Bodies stacked outside furnace. Right: Another view of bodies stacked outside furnace. Middle Right: Bodies of two camp guards who disguised themselves as inmates. Also includes a May 1945 newspaper clipping about Lawrence Layden's visit to Buchenwald.
Typewritten page written by Lawrence Layden in January 1946 as an introduction to the photographs of Buchenwald concentration camp that follow. Layden visited the camp with his C.O. and the Group Photographic Officer on April 17, 1945, six days after the camp's liberation.
Three photos of Buchenwald including the entrance gate, a memorial erected by U.S. soldiers, and a photo of Layden's camp guide with a Czech politician (both former inmates).
Selection of concentration camps with their date of liberation, name of liberator and prisoner statistics taken from "U.S. News and World Report" April 3, 1995.
Table taken from "The World at Arms, the Reader's Digest Illustrated History of World War II" showing size of armed forces, casualties, etc. from major participant countries.
