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Buchenwald (German pronunciation: [ˈbuːxn̩valt]; literally 'beech forest') was a Nazi concentration camp established on Ettersberg hill near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937. It was one of the first and the largest of the concentration camps within the Altreich (Old Reich) territories.
Between 20 August and 19 October 1944, 168 Allied airmen were held prisoner at Buchenwald concentration camp. Colloquially, they described themselves as the KLB Club (from German: Konzentrationslager Buchenwald). [1] [page needed] [2] Of them, 166 airmen survived Buchenwald, while two died of sickness at the camp. [3] [page needed] [4]
The following is a list of the forced labor subcamps of the Nazi Buchenwald concentration camp. [1] Name ... Holding center for prisoners before Buchenwald camp was ...
Buchenwald inmates The bullet-ridden body of one SS guard, the other stabbed, who were killed in the Ohrdruf concentration camp soon after the liberation. Buchenwald memorial Buchenwald's crematorium Polish prisoners from Buchenwald awaiting execution in the forest near the camp, April 26, 1942 General Dwight Eisenhower and other high ranking U.S. Army officers view the bodies of prisoners ...
The U.S. Army’s 6th Armored Division out of Camp Chaffee liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp 77 years ago.
The Buchenwald concentration camp was established in 1937, 10 kilometers from Weimar. The prisoners of the camp were Jews, political prisoners, religious prisoners [clarification needed] and prisoners of war. They came from Russia, Poland, France, Germany, Austria, Ukraine and other countries. The American army liberated Buchenwald on 11 April ...
Karl-Otto Koch (German:; 2 August 1897 – 5 April 1945) was a mid-ranking commander in the Schutzstaffel (SS) of Nazi Germany who was the first commandant of the Nazi concentration camps at Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen.
We've seen plenty of home features inspired by history, but a front gate that evokes one of the most notorious Nazi concentration camps is pretty extreme. The controversial design was dreamed up ...