Buchenwald

Name

Buchenwald

Type

Main Camp

Number of known subcamps: 136

Dates

Opened: beginning of July 1937

Closed: 11 April 1945 at 15:15

Location

Camp: 51.02131/11.24930

Street Address: [[]]

District: Ettersberg

Town: Weimar

State: Thüringen

Country: Deutschland

Memorials

Museum: Buchenwald Memorial, 99427 Weimar, Germany, buchenwald.de

Buchenwaldmonument, Nederland, 52.34348/4.93802

Population

Designed for 8,000 prisoners. 280,000 prisoners passed through Buchenwald and its subcamps.

Company Names

[[]] List of all companies involved with the subcamps?

Victims and Survivors

Names of victims and survivors, if these are known.

Staff

This camp was run by the SS.

Thirty SS perpetrators at Buchenwald were tried before a US military tribunal in 1947, including Higher SS and Police Leader Josias Erbprinz zu Waldeck und Pyrmont, who oversaw the SS district that Buchenwald was located in, and many of the doctors responsible for Nazi human experimentation. Almost all of the defendants were convicted, and 22 were sentenced to death. However, only nine death sentences were carried out, and by the mid-1950s, all perpetrators had been freed except for Ilse Koch, who was tried by a West German court and given a life sentence. Additional perpetrators were tried before German courts during the 1960s. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchenwald_concentration_camp#Buchenwald_trial)

Sources

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia I-A page 290