Directory of Buchenwald Resources

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Buchenwald was a Nazi concentration camp established in July 1937. The prisoners were used as slave labour in local armament factories. The camp was evacuated by the Nazis as Allied troops approached the area, and the U.S. Army assumed control of the camp on 11 April 1945.

Resources in This Category

• 50 Years Later, a Visit With Buchenwald's Ghosts

  http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/Holocaust/buchenwald.html
  Survivors and liberators recount events at Buchenwald.

• BBC News: Germany Marks Buchenwald 'Shame'

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4430133.stm
  German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder leads a ceremony to mark 60 years since Buchenwald death camp was liberated.

• Buchenwald

  http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005198
  Details the forced labor at the camp, and has a silent historical film of the liberation.

• Buchenwald (Germany)

  http://www.jewishgen.org/ForgottenCamps/Camps/BuchenwaldEng.html
  Overview of the camp, with a few pictures. Plus extract from the Nuremberg Trial about tattooed skin.

• Buchenwald and Beyond

  http://www.buchenwaldandbeyond.com/
  Education and archive of the liberation of Buchenwald.

• Buchenwald Concentration Camp

  http://www.scrapbookpages.com/Buchenwald/
  Tour of the camp, photos, and details of the atrocities that took place here.

• Buchenwald Concentration Camp Memorial

  http://radfilms.com/buchenwald_concentration_camp_album.html
  Includes a photo gallery of recent images from Buchenwald.

• Buchenwald: Legend and Reality

  http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v07/v07p405_Weber.html
  Written by Mark Weber. Portrays a revisionist theory about what happened at Buchenwald.

• Documents on the Nazi Concentration Camp at Buchenwald

  http://www.fpp.co.uk/Auschwitz/Buchenwald/
  Pictures and reports of the events and liberation of Buchenwald.

• Jewish Virtual Library: Buchenwald

  http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/buchtoc.html
  Summary of the Buchenwald trial, photos, and experiments that were done on detainees.

• Liberation of Buchenwald

  http://remember.org/witness/herder
  By Harry Herder, a first-hand report about the liberation.

• The Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation

  http://www.buchenwald.de/
  Details the work of the foundation in preserving these former internment camps, and the history of the camps.

• Wikipedia: Buchenwald

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchenwald
  Overview of camp, female prisoner life and famous prisoners.

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