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| Keywords: Buchenwald Forced Confrontation 60635.jpg An American soldier stands guard while German civilians file past piles of corpses outside the crematorium at the newly liberated Buchenwald concentration camp Lieutenant Colonel Parke O Yingst was born in Hummelstown PA in 1908 In 1930 he graduated from the Colorado School of Mines and joined the Army Corps of Engineers as a reservist He subsequently went to work in Venezuela During this period his reserve commission expired After returning to the United States in 1940 Yingst applied for recommissioning so that he could join the fight against Hitler In 1942 he was ordered to active duty as a First Lieutenant in the Army Corps of Engineers On April 4 1944 he was promoted to Major and in July he assumed command of the 281st Engineer Combat Battalion In April 1945 Yingst was present at the liberation of the Ohrdruf and Buchenwald concentration camps He was eventually promoted to Lieutenant Colonel prior to his separation from the army for medical reasons Photographed by Colonel Parke O Yingst Buchenwald Thuringia Germany April 1945 http //www ushmm org/ United States Holocaust Memorial Museum courtesy of Patricia A Yingst PD-USGov Allied confrontation of Germans with Holocaust Buchenwald liberation Images from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | ||||
