The Buchenwald Concentration Camp In Weimar Germany

Buchenwald Concentration Camp The Buchenwald Concentration Camp was a concentration camp that the Germans used for practically labor of the prisoners until they died or were killed by the SS. Hitler who was the Nazi leader wanted all the people that weren’t the Aryan race to die because they were not perfect. “The Buchenwald camp was located in Weimar Germany and was established in 1937. The main camp was constructed in a wooded area in the northern slopes of Ettersburg. Before the Nazi takeover Weimar was most known as the home of leading literary figure Johann Wolfgang von Goethe but, after the Nazi takeover it became known for the concentration camp Buchenwald.” When the camp first opened it was for only males not females. The Buchenwald concentration camp was built by the prisoners. “During the whole summer of 1937 the authorities of the camp made the prisoners use their free time to carry huge stones from the quarry to the camp. If the prisoners didn’t look or weren’t strong enough to carry the stones they were immediately killed by the SS.” After a while dozens of prisoners were chained to huge four wheel carts and forced to pull huge loads of the stones to the camp. While they pulled the SS made them sing. The SS called them singing horses.
“Thousands of prisoners were murdered in the infirmary by lethal injections and others were a part in horrific medical experiments, especially people that had Typhus Bacillas. They also would take the prisoners to the infirmary and tell them they had doctors but when they got in the infirmary they were all shot by a revolver.” Killing prisoners by work at buchenwald was very easy. Thousands died making the road from ettersburg to the entry of the camp. In the last few years of the camp the SS were sentencing people to death but since the camp was so overpopulated some of the prisoners could hide from the