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Buchenwald Memorial

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Buchenwald Memorial
Buchenwald Memorial
Buchenwald Memorial
Buchenwald Memorial
Buchenwald Memorial
Buchenwald Memorial
Buchenwald Memorial
Buchenwald Memorial
Buchenwald Memorial
Buchenwald Memorial
Buchenwald Memorial
Buchenwald Memorial
Buchenwald Memorial
Buchenwald Memorial
Buchenwald Memorial
Buchenwald Memorial
Buchenwald Memorial
Buchenwald Memorial
Buchenwald Memorial
Buchenwald Memorial
Buchenwald Memorial
Buchenwald Memorial
Buchenwald Memorial
Buchenwald Memorial
Buchenwald Memorial
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Buchenwald concentration camp was a German Nazi concentration camp established on Ettersberg hill 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 , 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.
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