KZ-Buchenwald

**LeonardoL** · 05-03-2013, 12:57 PM

Thank you for the answer. I have checked the thread, interesting. Not the words you learn in school.

**CARL** · 05-13-2013, 11:45 AM

Various images taken within the former Effektenkammer, a large building used to store the belongings of inmates, which nowadays functions as an exhibition centre. Items shown below include SS insignia, a Polish political prisoner's Winkel (cloth triangular identity patch) and an A4/V2 engine part, built at Mittelbau-Dora.

**CARL** · 06-07-2013, 10:18 AM

A link to the recent Kinderblock thread, concerning the child inmates at KL-Buchenwald:

Kinderblock - The Buchenwald Children

**CARL** · 06-13-2013, 10:02 AM

POLITISCHEN ABTEILUNG / DIENSTELLE DER GESTAPO (Political dept / Office of the Gestapo):

Located within the SS area of the camp, the site of the former Gestapo office.

**CARL** · 04-11-2014, 12:15 AM

Today, 11th April 2014 marks the 69th anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald.

**CARL** · 08-21-2014, 12:36 PM

Below, a recent thread featuring a series of then and now images:

BUCHENWALD, Then and Now

**CARL** · 04-09-2015, 07:51 PM

This week marks the 70th anniversary of the liberation of both KZ-Buchenwald and KZ-Mittelbau-Dora, two of the major Konzentrationslagers located within the Third Reich. Below is a link (German language) to a news feature regarding the commemorative events to be held in a few days time.

*Aktuelles Detail*-*Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp Memorial

**Iron Hussar** · 04-09-2015, 07:57 PM

Thanks for sharing these Carl, very good photos.

It's always a very sombre occasion to visit such places, I have been to Auschwitz 3 times myself, and it never fails to horrify and make an impact.

**CARL** · 04-11-2015, 07:14 PM

Further to the post made earlier this week, a recently published BBC article addressing the commemorative events at Buchenwald, held today.

Buchenwald camp survivors mark 70 years since liberation - BBC News

Note: There is an error within the text in the article linked above. Buchenwald was not the first major concentration camp to be liberated by American forces, as KZ-Mittelbau-Dora was liberated a day earlier by Americans. KZ-Hinzert (aka SS-Sonderlager Hinzert) was also discovered by American forces earlier than the camp at Buchenwald, and Natzweiler-Struthof, the only major concentration camp on French soil, was discovered much earlier - late November 1944. The major concentration camp Niederhagen-Wewelsburg, was the scene of yet another earlier liberation, in early April 1945.