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Landkreis Weimarer Land

Buchenwald Memorial — Mass Graves

Landkreis Weimarer Land

Buchenwald Memorial — Mass Graves

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Buchenwald Memorial — Mass Graves

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Location: Landkreis Weimarer Land, Thuringia, Germany

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Nordhesse

March 17, 2024

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Massive Roman-style curtain walls enclose three large funnels. They are mass graves from the Buchenwald concentration camp, in which the SS had around 3,000 dead buried in the spring of 1945 (2,000 more in the adjacent grave fields). Many of them were Hungarian Jews who had been deported to Buchenwald via Auschwitz.

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Clark Woods

January 3, 2022

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nice view to the south

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Antje und Klaus auf Tour 👣

June 14, 2024

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The memorial connects three tumbas (grave craters) in which the SS had the bodies buried in mass graves.

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Elevation 480 m

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Tuesday 12 May

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66 %

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