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Buchenwald Memorial — Entrance Gate

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Buchenwald Memorial — Entrance Gate

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    Moderate

    Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

    Moderate

    Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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    April 19, 2020

    Venerable entrance to the ring graves that creates a certain awe.

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      The memorial was built between 1954 and 1958. The concept is based on the motto “By dying and fighting to victory”. The visitor should be shown away from death and into life. The form of the entire monumental complex can be assigned to socialist realism. A staircase leads down the slope from the entrance gate. The stairs are flanked by seven steles, which symbolize the seven years of existence of the concentration camp. The steles were designed and created by the sculptors René Graetz, Waldemar Grzimek and Hans Kies. On the back of the steles are texts by Johannes R. Becher.

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        March 17, 2024

        The Buchenwalder Memorial, which can be seen from afar, is the burial place of thousands of concentration camp prisoners. The entrance through the large entrance tour leads into what is now the largest monument commemorating a National Socialist concentration camp in Europe. The monumental complex was built in 1958 on the south side of the Ettersberg as a national monument of the GDR.

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          Location: Landkreis Weimarer Land, Thuringia, Germany

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