Buchenwald

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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.

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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-Thekla subcamp
surface form: Leipzig-Schönefeld subcamp

Leipzig-Thekla subcamp
Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp
surface form: Mittelbau-Dora

Ohrdruf subcamp
Gustloff-Werk II subcamp
surface form: Weimar-Gustloff-Werk subcamp
liberatedBy Third United States Army
surface form: 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
Jorge Semprún
surface form: Robert Antelme
notablePrisonerGroup French prisoners
German criminals
JehovahsWitnesses
surface form: Jehovah’s Witnesses

Jews
Polish prisoners
Sinti
surface form: Sinti and Roma

Soviet prisoners of war
Spanish Republicans
homosexual prisoners
political prisoners
opened 1937
openingDate 1937-07-15
operatedBy Waffen-SS
surface form: SS-Totenkopfverbände

Schutzstaffel (SS)
surface form: Schutzstaffel
originalName Konzentrationslager Ettersberg
partOf Nazi camp system
surface form: Nazi concentration camp system
postwarUse Soviet special camp
memorial site
renamed Buchenwald self-link
subjectOf Buchenwald Trial
Nuremberg trials
surface form: Nuremberg follow-up trials
usedFor extermination through labor
forced labor
mass murder
medical experiments
political repression

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Quel beau dimanche! depicts Buchenwald
this entity surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp
Quel beau dimanche! setting Buchenwald
this entity surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp
La montagne blanche relatedTo Buchenwald
this entity surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp
Semprún survivorOf Buchenwald
subject surface form: Jorge Semprún
this entity surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp
Ettersberg associatedWith Buchenwald
this entity surface form: Buchenwald Memorial
Ettersberg hasProtectedSite Buchenwald
this entity surface form: Buchenwald memorial site
Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont placeOfActivity Buchenwald
this entity surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp
Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont associatedWith Buchenwald
this entity surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp
Weimar-Buchenwald railway station locatedNear Buchenwald
this entity surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp
Weimar-Buchenwald railway station serves Buchenwald
this entity surface form: Buchenwald Memorial
Weimar-Buchenwald railway station adjacentTo Buchenwald
this entity surface form: Buchenwald camp area
Weimar-Buchenwald railway station hasNearbyMemorial Buchenwald
this entity surface form: Buchenwald Memorial
SS personnel of Buchenwald operated Buchenwald
this entity surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp
SS personnel of Buchenwald stationedAt Buchenwald
this entity surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp
Buchenwald Memorial Foundation namedAfter Buchenwald
this entity surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp
Buchenwald Memorial Foundation focusesOn Buchenwald
this entity surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp
Berga an der Elster subcampOf Buchenwald
this entity surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp
Karl-Otto Koch commanded Buchenwald
this entity surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp