Buchenwald was a Nazi concentration camp established on Ettersberg, Germany. It was one of the first and the largest of the concentration camps. It was founded in July, 1937. Many actual or suspected communists were among the first internees.
Prisoners from all over Europe: Jews, Poles and other Slavs, the mentally ill and physically disabled, political prisoners, Romani people, Freemasons, criminals, homosexuals, and prisoners of war worked primarily as forced labor in local armaments factories. The Buchenwald concentration camp was liberated on April 11, 1945 by four soldiers in the Sixth Armored Division of the US Third Army, commanded by General George S.
Approximately 53.000 people died there.