buchenwald
paragraph 1
With many camps, Buchenwald was one of the largest cocentration camp established within the old German borders of 1937.The camp was constructed in 1937 in a wooded area on the northern slopes of the Ettersberg, about five miles northwest of Weimar in east-central Germany.
paragraph 2
SS authorities opened Buchenwald for male prisoners in July 1937. Women were not part of the Buchenwald camp system until late 1943 or early 1944. Prisoners were confined in the northern part of the camp in an area known as the main camp. Guard towers and barbed fences guarded the camp.
paragraph 3
Between July 1937 and April 1945, the SS imprisoned some 250,000 persons from all countries of Europe in Buchenwald. As camp authorities never registered a significant number of the prisoners. The SS murdered at least 56,000 male prisoners in the Buchenwald camp system, some 11,000 of them jews. The buchenwald camp still stands till this day
Nathan Medrano
Engish 8/6
love
March 20 2015