Keywords: Buchenwald Barracks 75028.jpg View of an inscription printed in large block letters on the wall of a barrack in the Buchenwald concentration camp The inscription on the building reads 1 May 1933 Fascist terror reigns over Germany 1 May 1945 Sunrise brings the dawn of freedom The original photo caption reads Shows where people have been there since 1933 Buchenwald was in full swing about 1935 Thousands died daily from typhus dysentery and T B Most of them died in the crematory or the lime pit William B Duff served in the 117th Infantry Medical Detachment as a surgical technician He participated in the invasion of Normandy and the fighting in Northern France the Rhineland Central Europe and the Ardennes He also helped provide medical assistance to survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp Photographed by William B Duff Buchenwald Thuringia Germany April 1945 - May 1945 http //www ushmm org/ United States Holocaust Memorial Museum courtesy of Marilyn Sutherland PD-USGov Buchenwald barracks Buchenwald liberation Images from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |