70 years ago on this date, April 11, 1945, the American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp. I will post information about this Concentration Camp from Wikipedia and other links.
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Watchtower
at the memorial site Buchenwald, in 1983
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Buchenwald concentration camp (German: Konzentrationslager (KZ)
Buchenwald, IPA: [ˈbuːxənvalt];
literally, in English: beech forest) was a German Nazi concentration camp established on the
Ettersberg (Etter Mountain) near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937, one of
the first and the largest of the concentration camps on German soil, following
Dachau's opening just over four years earlier.
Prisoners
from all over Europe and the Soviet Union—Jews, Poles and other Slavs, the
mentally ill and physically-disabled from birth defects, religious and
political prisoners, Roma and Sinti, Freemasons, Jehovah's Witnesses (then called Bible
Students), criminals, homosexuals,
and prisoners of war—worked primarily as forced labor in local armaments
factories. From 1945 to 1950, the camp was used by the Soviet occupation
authorities as an internment camp, known as NKVD special camp number 2.
Today
the remains of Buchenwald serve as a memorial and permanent exhibition and
museum.
History
People
Camp
commandants
Female
prisoners and overseers
Allied
airmen
Death
toll at Buchenwald
Causes
of death
Number
of deaths
Liberation from Nazi Germany
Soviet Special Camp 2
Demolition of the camp
Nazi personnel
Notable
inmates
Camp
literature
Modern
times
Visit
from President Obama and Chancellor Merkel
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