Because Jews were killed there.
Buchenwald and Dachau were concentration camps during WWII. Both were liberated in April by American troops.
Buchenwald (and Dachau, and Belzek) were created in 1933.
It was a concentration camp.
Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald, Dachau, and Buna
When the Americans liberated Dachau they found a trainload of prisoners sent there from Buchenwald. All of them were dead on arrival.
* Dachau - Near Munich, Bavaria. * Auschwitz I - Near Oswiemcim, about 40 miles SW of Krakow, Poland (then under Nazi occupation). * Birkenau was Auschwitz II and about 1 mile from Auschwitz I (see above). * Buchenwald was near Weimar, Thuringia. Dachau, Auschwitz I and Buchenwald also had several sub-camps, some of which was far away from the main camp.
* Parts of Auschwitz I and II * A small part of Buchenwald * Part of Majdanek * Dachau
All four are the names of different kinds of Nazi camps. * Dachau and Buchenwald were 'ordinary' concentration camps. (Dachau was a Grade I concentration camp, Buchenwald was Grade II - in other words, harsher). * Ravensbrück was a concentration camp for women only. * The Birkenau section of Auschwitz was mainly an extermination camp that carried out mass gassings on a vast scale, but it also included the main hard labour camp for women in the Auschwitz complex of camps.
All four are the names of different kinds of Nazi camps. * Dachau and Buchenwald were 'ordinary' concentration camps. (Dachau was a Grade I concentration camp, Buchenwald was Grade II - in other words, harsher). * Ravensbrück was a concentration camp for women only. * The Birkenau section of Auschwitz was mainly an extermination camp that carried out mass gassings on a vast scale, but it also included the main hard labour camp for women in the Auschwitz complex of camps.
Auschwitz, Dachau, Bergen-Belsen, which one are you looking for?
Yes you can Visit Auschwitz today, 2 years after Auschwitz was liberated, it becomed an Museum.
They were all Nazi concentration camps. In addition, part of Auschwitz was an extermination camp.