What was the concentration camp Buchenwald?

Answer 1

Buchenwald concentration camp was in Germany, cleverly hidden in forests about 5 miles from Weimar (Thuringia) - the town which Germans have traditionally regarded as one of the most important centres of German culture!

Buchenwald is near Weimar, in Thuringia, in central Germany. It opened as a concentration camp in 1937.

Answer 2

Buchenwald was one of the first concentration camps in Nazi Germany as well as one of the largest. It was not an extermination camp, but still had a large number of prisoner deaths. The approximate number of deaths at the camp was 56,545.

Answer 3

The Buchenwald concentration camp was constructed in 1937 in Germany. It resides in a wooded area in Ettersberg, which is about five miles northwest of Weimar.