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Buchenwald Concentration Camp

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Reporter Edward Ward files his account of entering one of the earliest built and biggest of the Nazi concentration camps, sharing everything that he saw and heard. The details are distressing. One German girl, a former member of the female branch of the Hitler Youth, membership of which was compulsory, is also present and is shocked to learn the truth.

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