Buchenwald
- Buchenwald was constructed in 1937 in a wooded area on the northern slopes of the Ettersberg.
- The estimated number of victims were more than 56,000 and this didn't include the 13,000 inmates transferred from other concentration camps.
- "Buchenwald was open for male prisoners in July of 1937. The women were not part of the Buchenwald camp system until the late 1943".
"Most of the early inmates at Buchenwald were political prisoners. However, in 1938, in the aftermath of Kristallnacht, German SS and police sent almost 10,000 Jews to Buchenwald where the camp authorities subjected them to extraordinarily cruel treatment upon arrival. 255 of them died as a result of their initial mistreatment at the camp".
"Buchenwald." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Council, 10 June 2013. Web. 13 Apr. 2014. <http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005198>.
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