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    Buchenwald (German pronunciation: [ˈbuːxn̩valt]; literally 'beech forest') was a Nazi concentration camp established on Ettersberg [de] hill near Weimar...
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    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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    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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  • 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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  • Buchenwald concentration camp. List of Nazi concentration camps List of places: Concentration camps and outlying camps: Concentration camp Buchenwald...
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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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    inmates: a human skin lampshade was claimed to have been displayed by Buchenwald concentration camp commandant Karl-Otto Koch and his wife Ilse Koch, along...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • to carry out inconspicuous murder of larger groups of victims. In the Buchenwald concentration camp, after 1941, the facility was mostly used to execute...
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    Holocaust survivors liberated from Buchenwald concentration camp, who had established themselves in 1945 as "Kibbutz Buchenwald", an agricultural collective...
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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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  • 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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  • The Lampshade: A Holocaust Detective Story from Buchenwald to New Orleans is a 2010 nonfiction book by U.S. author Mark Jacobson. It recounts the attempt...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • were liberated on 30 April 1945, by a Soviet scout unit. In early 1945, Buchenwald had received numerous prisoners moved from camps further east in territory...
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    Auschwitz and Auschwitz II–Birkenau, Topf & Söhne built crematorium ovens for Buchenwald, Dachau, Mauthausen-Gusen, Mogilev ghetto, and the Gross-Rosen concentration...
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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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  • Karl-Otto Koch, the commandant of Buchenwald and Majdanek, Koch's wife Ilse Koch, sadistic SS NCO Martin Sommer, and Buchenwald's camp doctor Waldemar Hoven...
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    specialist Benedikt Kautsky [de], a political prisoner, who was liberated from Buchenwald Liberated Neuengamme survivor standing on the right has a triangle patch...
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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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    Dachau Mauthausen Ravensbrück Flossenbürg Sachsenhausen Buchenwald Neuengamme Auschwitz Majdanek Kraków-Płaszów Natzweiler-Struthof Stutthof Bergen-Belsen...
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  • Wilhelm Schäfer (SS) (category Buchenwald concentration camp personnel)
    in Buchenwald concentration camp. He was exposed as a war criminal, put on trial, and executed after he was recognized by a survivor of Buchenwald. Schäfer...
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