View source

<!--  via Wikipedia: Buchenwald
    
      last updated: 2004-03-09T01:39:36Z
      updated by: Mikkalai
      
//-->

[[de:KZ Buchenwald]]

<div style="float:left;width:400px;margin-right:5px;text-align:center;">[[Image:Buchenwald.jpg]]<br><small>''Slave laborers in the Buchenwald concentration camp''<br>''([[Elie Wiesel]] is second row, seventh from left)''</small></div>

'''Buchenwald''' was a [[Nazi]] [[concentration camp]] established on Ettersberg Hill near [[Weimar]], [[Thuringia]], [[Germany]], in July [[1937]].

The first commandant was [[Karl Otto Koch]], whose second wife [[Ilse Koch|Ilse]] was known as ''The Bitch of Buchenwald'', one of the cruelest figures of the  [[Holocaust]].

Mass killings of [[prisoner of war|prisoners of war]] took place in the camp, and many inmates died during medical experiments, or fell victim to arbitrary acts perpetrated by the [[SS]].

The camp was largely evacuated by the Nazis as Allied troops approached the area, and was finally occupied by the U.S. 3rd Army on [[April 11]], [[1945]] with minimal resistance.

*[[List of subcamps of Buchenwald]]

==External links:==
*[http://www.buchenwald.de/index_en.html  Memorial website]

<!--  NOTE TO EDITORS: 
Per the GNU Free Documentation License, please include the live link below to the adapted Wikipedia article:
//-->

====References====
* Adapted from the [[Wikipedia]] article, "Buchenwald" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchenwald http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchenwald], used under the [[GNU Free Documentation License]]