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Landkreis Weimarer Land

Buchenwald Memorial — Entrance Gate

Landkreis Weimarer Land

Buchenwald Memorial — Entrance Gate

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Buchenwald Memorial — Entrance Gate

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Location: Landkreis Weimarer Land, Thuringia, Germany

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1. Buchenwald Memorial Bell Tower – Buchenwald Memorial loop from Ettersberg-Siedlung

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2. Buchenwald Memorial Bell Tower – Buchenwald Memorial loop from Hottelstedt

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3. View of Ettersburg Castle – Ettersburg Castle loop from Ottstedt am Berge

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Berghexe

April 19, 2020

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

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Stefanie & Luna 👫🏻🐶

July 11, 2021

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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Nordhesse

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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Elevation 460 m

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Tuesday 13 January

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Location: Landkreis Weimarer Land, Thuringia, Germany

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Buchenwald Memorial — Entrance Gate

1. Buchenwald Memorial Bell Tower – Buchenwald Memorial loop from Ettersberg-Siedlung

2. Buchenwald Memorial Bell Tower – Buchenwald Memorial loop from Hottelstedt

3. View of Ettersburg Castle – Ettersburg Castle loop from Ottstedt am Berge

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