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Amer. soldier holding tanned pieces of tattooed human skin taken fr. the bodies of prisoners chosen to be killed by the inspector wife of the Nazi camp director, because she liked their tattoos & wanted to use them to make purses & lampshades.

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  • Title: Buchenwald Concentration Camp
  • Date: 1945-04-13
  • Location: Buchenwald, Germany
  • Physical Dimensions: B/W PRINT
  • Subject Keywords: Tattooing, Buchenwald, Concentration Camps, In Foreign Country, Prisons, German, Wars, Wwii, Us Armed Forces, Germany, Skin, Medicine, Atrocities, Vintage Print, 1940s
  • Publisher: TimeLife
  • Usage: For personal non-commercial use only
  • Provider: LIFE
  • Photographer: Margaret Bourke-White
  • Original ID: TimeLife_image_5825788
  • Credits: LIFE
  • Copyright: © Time Inc.

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