Buchenwald (German pronunciation: [ˈbuːxn̩valt]; 'beech forest') was a German Nazi concentration camp established on Ettersberg hill near Weimar, Germany...
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Ilse Koch (redirect from Bitch of Buchenwald)
committed atrocities while her husband Karl-Otto Koch was commandant at Buchenwald. Though Ilse Koch had no official position in the Nazi state, she became...
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Buchenwald is the German for "beechwood forest". It may also refer to: Buchenwald concentration camp, a German concentration camp in World War II Buchenhochwald...
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The Buchenwald Resistance was a resistance group of prisoners at Buchenwald concentration camp. It involved Communists, Social Democrats, and people affiliated...
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The Buchenwald trial or United States of America vs. Josias Prince of Waldeck et al. (also referred as Case 000-50-9) was a war crime trial conducted by...
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Buchenwald is the fifth album by Whitehouse released in 1981 by Come Organisation (later reissued by Susan Lawly). As is common in many early Whitehouse...
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The Boys of Buchenwald is a 2002 documentary film produced by Paperny Films that examines how the child survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp...
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Buchenwald concentration camp. List of Nazi concentration camps List of places: Concentration camps and outlying camps: Concentration camp Buchenwald...
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murdered concentration camp inmates: a human skin lampshade was displayed by Buchenwald concentration camp commandant Karl-Otto Koch and his wife Ilse Koch, said...
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The number of deaths in the Buchenwald concentration camp is estimated to have been 56,545, a mortality rate of 20% averaged over all prisoners transferred...
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During the history of Buchenwald concentration camp, thousands of people were imprisoned. Roy Allen, American pilot Jean Améry, Austrian-Belgian writer...
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Martin Sommer (category Buchenwald concentration camp personnel)
guard at the concentration camps of Dachau and Buchenwald. Sommer, known as the "Hangman of Buchenwald", was considered a depraved sadist who reportedly...
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Karl-Otto Koch (category Buchenwald concentration camp personnel)
Germany who was the first commandant of the Nazi concentration camps at Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen. From September 1941 until August 1942, he served as...
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concentration camp List of subcamps of Bergen-Belsen Buchenwald concentration camp List of subcamps of Buchenwald Dachau concentration camp List of subcamps of...
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Geneva, and from 1945 to 1947, she directed a home for child survivors of Buchenwald in France. She authored books and papers on the Holocaust experiences...
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Hermann Pister (category Buchenwald concentration camp personnel)
September 1948) was an SS Oberführer (Senior Colonel) and commandant of Buchenwald concentration camp from 21 January 1942 until April 1945.[citation needed]...
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Night (memoir) (section Buchenwald, liberation)
with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945, toward the end of the Second World War in Europe. In just...
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prisoner at Buchenwald concentration camp. Colloquially, they described themselves as the KLB Club (from German: Konzentrationslager Buchenwald).[page needed]...
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Matthias Spanlang (category Austrian people who died in Buchenwald concentration camp)
5, 1940, in Buchenwald concentration camp) was an Austrian priest, opponent of National Socialism and prisoner in Dachau and Buchenwald concentration...
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Carl Værnet (section Nazi Germany and Buchenwald)
Peter Værnet (April 28, 1893 – November 25, 1965) was a Danish doctor at Buchenwald concentration camp and an SS-Sturmbannführer. Værnet attempted to cure...
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Ohrdruf concentration camp (category Subcamps of Buchenwald)
near Ohrdruf, south of Gotha, in Thuringia, Germany. It was part of the Buchenwald concentration camp network. Created in November 1944 near the town of...
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1947). "Cruel 'Queen of Buchenwald' given a permanent address". The Milwaukee Journal. p. 2. Retrieved 16 December 2012. "Buchenwald Queen must face German...
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Erich Wagner (category Buchenwald concentration camp personnel)
1959) was a German-Austrian SS-Sturmbannführer and camp doctor in the Buchenwald concentration camp. Wagner was born on 15 September 1912 in Komotau, Austria-Hungary...
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Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp (category Subcamps of Buchenwald)
Thuringia, Germany. It was established in late summer 1943 as a subcamp of Buchenwald concentration camp, supplying slave labour from many Eastern countries...
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Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (category People convicted in the Buchenwald trials)
Pyrmont. After World War II, he was sentenced to life in prison at the Buchenwald Trial (later commuted to 20 years) for his part in the "common plan" to...
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contemptuously used by the Nazis as a motto displayed over the entrance of Buchenwald concentration camp. This has resulted in use of the phrase being considered...
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of the Buchenwald concentration camp was postponed after the Israeli embassy in Germany put pressure on the promoters. The head of the Buchenwald memorial...
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Dachau Mauthausen Ravensbrück Flossenbürg Sachsenhausen Buchenwald Neuengamme Auschwitz Majdanek Kraków-Płaszów Natzweiler-Struthof Stutthof Bergen-Belsen...
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Phil Lamason (category Buchenwald concentration camp survivors)
prominence as the senior officer in charge of 168 Allied airmen taken to Buchenwald concentration camp, Germany, in August 1944. Raised in Napier, he joined...
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London Blitz, the liberation of Paris and the concentration camps at Buchenwald and Dachau. Her reputation as an artist in her own right is due mostly...
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