Alfred Stüber

The Jehovah's Witness photographed the liberated Buchenwald in April and May 1945 on behalf of the International Camp Committee. The photos were reproduced while still in the camp for the prisoners returning to their homes. He made slides for himself and gave a series of very well-attended lectures on photographs in the vicinity of Reutlingen. (From: Digital photo exhibition "Black on White")

The garden area of the prisoners' hospital, which is characterized by idyllic flower beds, benches and branched paths. In the background is the long low-rise building of the prisoners' hospital. In front of it are isolated nursing staff with white jackets. — 1/13

Prisoner infirmary, garden area, 1945. Photo: Alfred Stüber. ©Private property

U.S. Army personnel and liberated prisoners in front of a truck trailer loaded with bodies of deceased prisoners in the crematory courtyard. — 2/13

Trailer with 67 corpses in the courtyard of the crematorium, 1945. Photo: Alfred Stüber. ©Private property

Exterior view of the horse stable, which housed the neck-shooting facility. It is an elongated two-story building. — 3/13

The horse stable where the neck-shooting facility was located, 1945. Photo: Alfred Stüber. ©Private property

View through the camp gate onto Carachoweg and the former SS adjutant's office behind it. Behind the gate are liberated prisoners and American soldiers. The inscription on the camp gate "To each his own" can be read from the photographer's side. — 4/13

View through the camp gate onto Carachoweg and the former SS adjutant's office behind it, 1945. Photo: Alfred Stüber. © Private property

Stefan Jerzy Zweig, one of the youngest survivors of Buchenwald concentration camp. In the background, Block 47 can be seen on the left and Block 59 in the center. — 5/13

Stefan Jerzy Zweig (Prisoner number 67509), one of the youngest survivors of Buchenwald concentration camp, 1945. Photo: Alfred Stüber. ©Private property

A wooden obelisk on a wooden pedestal. It bears the inscription "K.L.B - 51.000". — 6/13

Temporary memorial "K.L.B. 51.000" on the roll call square, 1945. Photo: Alfred Stüber. ©Private property

Several four-story cots can be seen, which are occupied several times. The liberated prisoners lying in them look out of their cots into the camera. — 7/13

Liberated prisoners on their cots in a horse stable barrack of the Small Camp, 1945. Photo: Alfred Stüber. ©Private property

Two artillery pieces. In the background is the gate building. A small crowd is gathered in front of it. The gate is open. — 8/13

View of the gate building from the commandant's office, 1945. Photo: Alfred Stüber. ©Private property

Four young prisoners with their upper bodies exposed in front of one of the stone blocks. Sitting in the center of the picture: the Hungarian Jewish prisoner Jakob Rosenthal . — 9/13

Four juvenile prisoners with their upper bodies exposed in front of one of the stone blocks, 1945. Photo: Alfred Stüber. ©Private property

Reconstruction of the beating rack with a prisoner dummy on the roll call square. Above it are two signs explaining punishment practices in the camp. — 10/13

Reconstruction of the whipping post with a prisoner dummy on the roll call square, 1945. Photo: Alfred Stüber. ©Private property

Block 54 on the right, Block 60 in the background, the latrine building on the left. A container full of garbage and several barrels. Photographed through a simple wire fence made of rough beams. — 11/13

Waste corner in the small camp, 1945. Photo: Alfred Stüber. ©Private property

Transportable gallows in the inner courtyard of the crematorium, in the background a pile of ashes can be seen in which the remains of bones of burned prisoners can still be seen. — 12/13

Transportable gallows in the inner courtyard of the crematorium, 1945. Photo: Alfred Stüber. ©Private propery

The photograph shows the front view of the commander's private villa, with winter garden, numerous rooms, surrounded by trees on the south side of the Ettersberg. — 13/13

Front view of Villa Koch in the SS-Führersiedlung, 1945. Photo: Alfred Stüber. © Private property