Video: 'WWII Triumph and Despair' (Buchenwald at 18:53)

(Wednesday, April 11, 1945, 3:30 p.m. Central European Summer Time; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — The Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald near Weimar, Germany, where prisoners from all over Europe and the Soviet Union worked primarily as forced labor in local armaments factories, was liberated today by U.S. troops.

Video: 'HD Historic Archival Stock Footage WWII Buchenwald Concentration Camp - Liberation 2 Color' (filmed Apr. 16, 1945)

One of the first and the largest of the concentration camps on German soil, it is estimated that 56,545 inmates had died at Buchenwald since the camp opened in July 1937.

Video: 'Buchenwald Concentration Camp'

Video: 'Edward R. Murrow describes Buchenwald' (recorded Apr. 15, 1945)

Video: 'Memory of the Camps (full documentary) | FRONTLINE' (liberation at 41:00)