Buchenwald (German pronunciation: [ˈbuːxn̩valt]; 'beech forest') was a German Nazi concentration camp established on Ettersberg hill near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937.

Dec 26, 2025 · Buchenwald, one of the biggest of the Nazi concentration camps established on German soil. It stood on a wooded hill about 4.5 miles northwest of Weimar, Germany. Set up in 1937, it …

Jul 12, 2021 · The Nazi regime established the Buchenwald camp in 1937. Learn about the camp’s prisoners, conditions there, forced labor, subcamps, medical experiments, and liberation.

Official website of the Buchenwald Memorial with all the information you need to prepare for a visit and about the historical site.

On April 11, GIs of the 6th Armored Division entered Buchenwald, the main camp in a large complex of concentration camps near Weimar that had recently been abandoned by German troops. American …

Buchenwald was a Nazi concentration camp established in 1937 in east-central Germany near the city of Weimar. Initially, most of the inmates at Buchenwald were political prisoners, but after Kristallnacht …

Buchenwald was one of the largest concentration camps established by the Nazis. The camp was constructed in 1937 in a wooded area on the northern slopes of the Ettersberg, about five miles …

Buchenwald became symbolic of the Nazi camp system, becoming the largest concentration camp within the Reich. It was created to hold people who opposed the Nazi regime, Jewish people, …

In 1938 around 2,000 Jews were brought to Buchenwald from Austria, and following Kristallnacht, another 10,000 German Jews were imprisoned in the camp. They were subjected to brutal terror. …

Soon, he would join almost 170 other Allied airmen as prisoners in Buchenwald, one of the most notorious and deadly of Nazi concentration camps. Tom Clavin's Lightning Down tells this largely …