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Buchenwald concentration camp near the town of Weimar. Being the 3rd largest camp under the 3rd Reich it was set up in 1938 to deal with the problems of non workers and other dissedents who did not want to be part of the new Germany.
Over 56,000 died there from 1938 to 1945 with adults and children being sent there from all over Europe.
Gypsies, homosexuals, handicapped, Jews, Jehovah Witnesesses, and political dissedents were among the people from 57 nations who were starved, beaten, tortured, medically experiementated on, forced into work parties and cremated in this place.
It is a large site with many of the exisiting buildings still remaining.
An audio guide is a must and it explains all the details sensitvely and takes you from point to point.
It is not gruesome or depressing rather sombre and has a real sense of melancholy about it.
Two of the exisiting buildings have been converted into a museum and an art display. The art display houses originals of drawings of camp life done at the time and later. The museum details the building of the camp, the daily life, the liberation and has many original documents and artifacts.
Buchenwald
The railway where the prisoners arrivedThe SS meticulously recorded each and every detail of every prisoner.
Some were shot, experimented on with thyphus, worked to death, tortured. There were no gas chambers here. A large crematorium was used to dispose of the bodies with the ash dumped in the nearby forest.
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