Buchenwald was a Nazi concentration camp established on the Ettersberg hill near Weimar in central Germany. It opened in the summer of 1937 and was used to hold political opponents, Jews, Roma and Sinti, prisoners of war and many others, who were forced into labour in the camp's quarries and armaments factories. Tens of thousands of prisoners died there from starvation, disease, brutal treatment, medical experiments and executions. American troops approached the camp in April 1945, and an underground resistance among the prisoners took control of parts of the site just before they arrived. After the war the Soviet authorities used the site for a time as a special camp, and it is now a memorial and museum.
Before and after
- 1 June 1937Birth of Morgan Freeman
- 4 June 1937Battle of Pochonbo
- 13 June 1937Construction of Stade Vélodrome
- 23 June 1937Birth of Martti Ahtisaari
- from July 1937 to April 1945Construction of Buchenwald concentration camp
- from 7 July 1937 to 9 September 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- from 7 July 1937 to 9 July 1937Marco Polo Bridge incident
- 20 July 1937Death of Guglielmo Marconi
- 28 August 1937Founding of Toyota
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