Scott's description of this photo reads as follows: "Shown outside of incinerator building are some of the bodies of 30,000 plus persons killed in the two-week period prior to the arrival of some of the men of the 183rd Engineer Combat Battalion of the Eighth Corps of the Third Army. Leon Bass, Ph.D. (third from left [fourth from left, if you count the inmate just visible behind the second GI]), a retired Philadelphia public school principal, has been lecturing on the holocaust since 1968. He was an official speaker representing the United States at the first gathering of survivors and liberators from around the world at the State Department in 1981. William A. Scott, III, and John Glustrom were the two GIs representing the State of Georgia at the liberators and survivors 1981 conference. Photo by William A. Scott, III."
April 11, 1945, is the first day of the liberation of Buchenwald. Scott's pamphlet also has photos of inmates in their bunks, too ill to move, of the crematoria, and of inmates being fed and processed for departure from Buchenwald in vehicles of the 183rd. The photo on our cover, which appears in Liberators, was reproduced in a New York Times article about the documentary film but with no photographer's credit (February 27, 1993, p. B1). The Times caption describes the photo simply as a "scene from the film "The Liberators.' " The title of the film incidentally, is not The Liberators, but Liberators, a subtle but significant distinction typical of the misinformation about this film.