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Buchenwald Concentration Camp, officially KL Buchenwald, was one of the largest concentration camps on German soil. It operated as a forced labor camp on the Ettersberg hill near Weimar between July 1937 and April 1945. A total of approximately 277,800 people from 50 countries were imprisoned in Buchenwald during this period.[1] The death toll is estimated at around 56,000, including 15,000 Soviet citizens, 7,000 Poles, 6,000 Hungarians, and 3,000 French citizens.[2] As the 3rd US Army approached on April 11, 1945, the prisoners took control of the camp from the retreating SS, arrested 125 of the guards, opened the gates, and raised a white flag.

If you are here, you should also stop at the memorial.

Preferably visit at dawn or just after sunrise. Very quiet. Surrounded by a well-maintained park.

Reminds us of bad times in German history.

Fritz Cremer's famous Buchenwald sculpture is part of the Buchenwald Memorial, the largest and most important concentration camp memorial in Germany. Created between 1954 and 1958, the group of figures was restored between 2002 and 2005. The expressive group comprises eleven larger-than-life bronze figures symbolizing struggle and sacrifice, victory and the prisoners' oath. Behind the group of monuments, the 50-meter-high bell tower rises majestically, visible far into the distance.

The bell tower, also known as the Tower of Freedom until the 1970s, is the 50.73-meter-high tower of the former Buchenwald National Memorial and Memorial Site of the GDR, built between 1954 and 1958. This name was replaced in the 1970s by the title of "bell tower" that has been used ever since. Built of light sandstone, the tower was designed by the sculptor Fritz Cremer and features a 41-meter-high observation platform accessible via two staircases. At the same height as this platform is the Buchenwald bell, which weighs 6.8 tons and, unlike most large bells, is not suspended but mounted on four steel supports. The bell is struck every hour.

This will keep you waiting.

It makes you curious and you want to see more.