"No time to think about it or interpret it. Just rush to photograph it," she wrote. Of entering Buchenwald, the notorious Nazi concentration camp, she said, "Using a camera was almost a relief. It interposed a slight barrier between myself and the horror in front of me."

Callahan, Sean Margaret Bourke-White, Photographer, Little, Brown and Company © 1998

German civilians made to face their nation's crimes, Buchenwald, 1945

Prisoners at Buchenwald 1945

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