Buchenwald - concentration camp, which, thanks to a well-functioning system of mass murder has become one of the most famous evidence of the crimes of the Nazi regime in Europe.It was not the first nor in the world, nor in Germany, but it is the local government has been a pioneer in the conveyor killings.Another famous camp in Auschwitz earned in full force only in January 1942, when the Nazi Party (NSDAP) set a course for total physical extermination of the Jews.But long before the practice came to Buchenwald.
Concentration marked its first victims in the summer of 1937.In early 1938 there was the first time created a torture chamber for prisoners, and in 1940 - the crematorium, which proved its effectiveness as a means of mass extermination.Prisoners for the most part are political opponents of Hitler (in particular, the leader of the German Communists - Ernst Thalmann) dissidents who dared to disagree with the course the NSDAP in the late thirties, all kinds of defective, according to the Chancellor, and, of course, the Jews.In the summer of 1937 it held its first check in Buchenwald.The concentration camp was located on the land of Thuringia, near Weimar.For all time of its existence, for eight years, until April 1945 through his barracks it was about a quarter of a million people, of which 55,000 were destroyed or os- physical work.That was Buchenwald - concentration camp pictures that shocked the whole world later.
experiments on people
Among other things than marked Buchenwald concentration camp is also famous for experiments on human beings.With the full approval of the highest Nazi leadership, in particular Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmer, intentionally infected people are dangerous viruses for experimental testing of vaccines.Buchenwald prisoners were subjected to the infection of tuberculosis, typhus and a number of other diseases.Very often it ended with the death of not just experimental, but also contamination of their neighbors in the barracks and, as a consequence, severe epidemics claimed thousands of lives of prisoners.In addition, the camp is actively experimented with respect to human pain threshold, his extreme endurance, the chances of survival in extreme conditions, when local doctors just watched
dying in an artificially created conditions in human beings: in the water, cold and so on.
Liberation
Buchenwald (concentration camp) was released in April 1945.4 April US forces had freed one of the concentration camps satellites - Ohrdruf.Continuous training of prisoners given the opportunity to form the armed forces of the resistance directly at the campsite.The uprising began on April 11, 1945.In its course the prisoners managed to break the resistance and take the territory under its control.Several dozen Nazi guards and SS men were captured.The same day, the camp came the formation of the US, and two days later, and the Red Army.
Postwar use After the Allied forces was captured Buchenwald concentration camp a few years was used by the Soviet People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) as an internment camp for Nazis.
