Forced labour prisoners from Buchenwald concentration camp woaking in a quarry. Buchenwald and its 139 sub-camps were forced labour camps not death camps and there were no gas chambers there. However poor conditions, abuse and executions led to 56500 deaths there. It was liberated by the US Army on the 11th April 1945. The photo is dated 27th September 197, so these men are German. Before the war the camp system was used to house political prisoners, dissenters, homosexuals and anyone else who didn

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