Buchenwald (b
`khənvält'), village, Thuringia, S central Germany, in the Buchenwald forest, near Weimar. It was the site of a large concentration camp concentration camp, a detention site outside the normal prison system created for military or political purposes to confine, terrorize, and, in some cases, kill civilians.
..... Click the link for more information. established by the National Socialist (Nazi) regime in 1937. It held approximately 20,000 prisoners during World War II.
Buchenwald
`khənvält'), village, Thuringia, S central Germany, in the Buchenwald forest, near Weimar. It was the site of a large concentration camp concentration camp, a detention site outside the normal prison system created for military or political purposes to confine, terrorize, and, in some cases, kill civilians...... Click the link for more information. established by the National Socialist (Nazi) regime in 1937. It held approximately 20,000 prisoners during World War II.
Buchenwald
One of the first and biggest of the German Nazi concentration camps, established in 1937 near Weimar. In World War II it held about 20,000 prisoners, most of whom worked as slave laborers in nearby factories. Though there were no gas chambers, many perished through disease, malnutrition, exhaustion, beatings, and executions. Inmates were used to test the effects of viral infections and vaccines. The commandant's wife was the infamously sadistic Ilsa Koch (1906?–1967), the “Witch of Buchenwald.” See also Holocaust.
Buchenwald
a village in E central Germany, near Weimar; site of a Nazi concentration camp (1937--45)
Buchenwald
showcase of Nazi atrocities. [Ger. Hist.: Hitler, 1055]
See : Genocide
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