Buchenwald

Weimar, DE

One of the largest concentration camps on German soil, established near Weimar in 1937 and holding over 280,000 prisoners including political dissidents, Jews, Soviet POWs, and others. Approximately 56,000 prisoners died there from forced labor, disease, and execution. Liberated by the American **6th Armored Division** on April 11, 1945, General Patton ordered civilian witnesses to tour the camp to counter future denial of the atrocities.