Concentration camp money from Buchenwald (83rd Div.)

[Daniel]

This is also from my grandpa he was in the 83rd Division 330th Co. E  On April 11, 1945, the 83rd encountered Langenstein, a subcamp of the Buchenwald Concentration camp. When the 83rd Infantry arrived in Langenstein, its troops found some 1,100 inmates in very poor physical condition. The unit reported that the prisoners had been forced to work 16 hours a day in nearby mines and that the SS had murdered those prisoners who became too weak to work. Deaths, the division's report continued, reached 500 per month. Upon overrunning the camp, US troops estimated that the newly liberated inmates weighed only 80 pounds each as the result of malnutrition at SS hands. They also estimated that, due to severe physical debilitation, prisoners continued to die at a rate of 25 to 30 persons per day.