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Ruins of the SS Leadership Settlement

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Ruins of the SS Leadership Settlement

Ruins of the SS Leadership Settlement

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    March 17, 2024

    In the immediate vicinity of the camp, on the sunny and leeward south side of the Ettersberg, were ten villas of the SS leaders of the camp management and their families. The families of the SS leaders, which usually had several children, led a life of middle-class prosperity. Inmates worked as domestic servants. The first camp commandant Koch lived with his family in the largest house in the settlement, the so-called Haus Buchenwald.

    In the mid-1950s, the villas were destroyed during demolition exercises by the GDR People's Police barracks stationed on Ettersberg. Remains of the man-high quarry stone walls and remnants of the garden design were made visible again in the 1990s.

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      May 19, 2024

      Hidden ruins. Banality of evil.

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        June 14, 2024

        The remains of the foundations, which are slightly set back, are still clearly visible today thanks to the stairs.

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