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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. BuchenwaldOne 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 showcase of Nazi atrocities. [Ger. Hist.: Hitler, 1055] See : Genocide |
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| Even now, more than 65 years after he spent exactly 951 days in four concentration camps, including the infamous Buchenwald camp, he still can't talk about the camps without crying. Night reads: "Three days after the Liberation of Buchenwald I became very ill with food poisoning. The report, upon which the divestment decision is based, compares Israeli authorities to Nazis, and the Israeli security barrier to the walls of Buchenwald concentration camp. |
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