Alben W. Barkley, a senator on the congressional committee investigating the atrocities of Nazi Germany, gazed at the bodies of the victims of the atrocities at the Buchenwald concentration camp in the German state of Weimar on April 24, 1945.

 　Alben W. Barkley, a senator from Kentucky who was a member of the congressional committee investigating the atrocities committed by Nazi Germany, gazed directly at the corpses of victims of the atrocities at the Buchenwald concentration camp in the German state of Weimar on April 24, 1945. The bodies were piled up in the courtyard of the Buchenwald crematorium, naked corpses piled up like a mountain. On April 24, ten members of the US Senate and House of Representatives arrived at the Buchenwald concentration camp. He served as the 35th Vice President of the United States under President Harry S. Truman from 1949 to 1953.

　　Buchenwald was the first major concentration camp to be liberated by the American forces. After mid-April 1945, photographs and reports of the horrific Nazi atrocities encountered by the American forces spread throughout the Western world. At the suggestion of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers, the corpses of the dead were not buried, and the Nazi Germany Holocaust was revealed to a large number of journalists, politicians and American military members.

　　According to the records of the Buchenwald concentration camp, the camp held 240,000 prisoners from at least 30 countries. At least 10,000 people were sent to extermination camps, and around 43,000 people died in the camp. On April 6th 1945, around 28,500 prisoners from the Buchenwald concentration camp were evacuated, one in four died in the death march. On April 11, 1945, just before the American army (a patrol unit from the 6th US Armored Division) liberated the camp, the German guards and officers fled, and the inmates took over. The inmates greeted the American army, which was liberated on April 11. The American army took over the management of the camp. Soon after, the camp was handed over to the Red Army. The camp was located in German territory that was occupied by the Soviets. Renamed as Camp 2, Buchenwald held German prisoners of war between 1945 and 1950, and 7,000 of them died there.