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Buchenwald Memorial
Buchenwald Memorial
The origins of the Buchenwald camp, which went into operation at the end of July 1937, go back to the decision taken on May 20, 1936 by Fritz Sauckel, Reich representative in Thuringia, and Theodor Eicke (concentration camp inspector at the time) to move the Lichtenburg concentration camp to Thuringia "for security reasons". Like Sachsenhausen, this Thuringian camp, designed for 8,000 inmates, was to be a new type of concentration camp, combining "optimally" the organizational, political and economic interests of the SS. The camp site was not finally chosen until four months later: the Ettersberg hill near Weimar, a city that symbolized the classic authors of German culture such as Goethe, Schiller, Nietzsche...
The camp is named Buchenwald (Beech Forest), officially KL Buchenwald bei Weimar; the name Ettersberg, where the old oak tree in whose shade Goethe came to meditate, according to legend, was originally used, is abandoned as too strongly associated with that of Goethe.
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Buchenwald Memorial
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Buchenwald Memorial

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