Buchenwald

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Nazi concentration camp forced labor camp

Buchenwald was one of Nazi Germany’s largest and most notorious concentration camps, where tens of thousands of prisoners were subjected to forced labor, brutal conditions, and mass murder during the Holocaust.

Aliases (7)

Buchenwald concentration camp ×16
Buchenwald Memorial ×1
Buchenwald concentration camp (complex area) ×1
Buchenwald concentration camp complex ×1
Buchenwald concentration camp memorial site ×1
Konzentrationslager Buchenwald ×1
Ohrdruf ×1

Statements (73)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Nazi concentration camp → forced labor camp →
category	Holocaust locations in Germany → Nazi concentration camps in Germany → World War II crimes of Nazi Germany →
closed	1945 →
commemorates	victims of Nazism →
controlledBy	Nazi Germany →
country	Germany →
establishedBy	SS →
estimatedDeaths	over 56000 →
estimatedPrisoners	over 250000 →
hasFacility	SS barracks → armaments factories → crematorium → quarry → zoo for SS personnel →
hasSubcamp	Berga an der Elster subcamp → Gustloff-Werk II subcamp → Laura subcamp → Leipzig-Schönefeld subcamp → Leipzig-Thekla subcamp → Mittelbau-Dora → Ohrdruf subcamp → Weimar-Gustloff-Werk subcamp →
liberatedBy	3rd US Army → 6th Armored Division → United States Army →
liberationDate	1945-04-11 →
locatedIn	Thuringia → central Germany →
location	Ettersberg hill near Weimar →
memorialEstablished	1958 →
nameMeaning	beech forest →
notableEvent	death marches in early 1945 → prisoner resistance organization → self-liberation efforts by prisoners in April 1945 →
notablePrisoner	Bruno Bettelheim → Dietrich Bonhoeffer → Elie Wiesel → Ernst Thälmann → Imre Kertész → Jorge Semprún → Léon Blum → Marcel Dassault → Primo Levi → Robert Antelme →
notablePrisonerGroup	French prisoners → German criminals → Jehovah’s Witnesses → Jews → Polish prisoners → Sinti and Roma → Soviet prisoners of war → Spanish Republicans → homosexual prisoners → political prisoners →
opened	1937 →
openingDate	1937-07-15 →
operatedBy	SS-Totenkopfverbände → Schutzstaffel →
originalName	Konzentrationslager Ettersberg →
partOf	Nazi concentration camp system →
postwarUse	Soviet special camp → memorial site →
renamed	Buchenwald →
subjectOf	Buchenwald Trial → Nuremberg follow-up trials →
usedFor	extermination through labor → forced labor → mass murder → medical experiments → political repression →

Referenced by (26)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Bruno Bettelheim ("Buchenwald concentration camp") → Elie Wiesel ("Buchenwald concentration camp") → Imre Kertész ("Buchenwald concentration camp") → Jorge Semprún ("Buchenwald concentration camp") → Spanish Republicans ("Buchenwald concentration camp") →	imprisonedIn
Berga an der Elster subcamp ("Buchenwald concentration camp") → Gustloff-Werk II subcamp ("Buchenwald concentration camp complex") → Laura subcamp ("Buchenwald concentration camp") → Leipzig-Thekla subcamp ("Buchenwald concentration camp") →	partOf
Holocaust → Nazi Germany → Nazi camp system ("Buchenwald concentration camp") →	notableCamp
Kristallnacht ("Buchenwald concentration camp") →	concentrationCampDestination
Buchenwald Trial ("Buchenwald concentration camp") →	concernedPlace
Auschwitz death marches ("Buchenwald concentration camp") →	destination
Ettersberg hill near Weimar ("Buchenwald Memorial") →	hasStructure
Konzentrationslager Ettersberg ("Buchenwald concentration camp") →	laterKnownAs
6th Armored Division ("Buchenwald concentration camp (complex area)") →	liberated
Night ("Buchenwald concentration camp") →	mainSubject
Ohrdruf subcamp ("Ohrdruf") →	near
Buchenwald →	renamed
Konzentrationslager Ettersberg ("Konzentrationslager Buchenwald") →	renamedAs
Night →	settingLocation
Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp ("Buchenwald concentration camp") →	subcampOf
Konzentrationslager Ettersberg ("Buchenwald concentration camp memorial site") →	successor
Léon Blum ("Buchenwald concentration camp") →	wasDeportedTo