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Buchenwald concentration camp was a Nazi Concentration Camp established on the Ettersberg (Etter Mountain) near Weimar , Thuringia , Germany, in July 1937, and one of the largest such camps on German soil. Camp prisoners worked primarily as Slave Labour in local armament factories. Inmates were Jews , Political Prisoner s, religious prisoners, and Prisoners Of War . Up to 1942 the majority of the political prisoners consisted of Communists , later the proportion of other political prisoners increased considerably. Among the prisoners were also writers, doctors, artists, former nobility, and an Italian Princess. They came from countries as varied as Russia , Poland , France , Germany, Austria , Czechia , Netherlands , Belgium , Norway , Denmark , Spanish Republic and Italy . Most of the political prisoners from the occupied countries were people of the Resistance .

From 1945 to 1950, the camp was used by the Soviet Occupation Authorities .


HISTORY


  Last Farmer
  First Sarah
  Title Symbols that Face Two Ways: Commemorating the Victims of Nazism and Stalinism at Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen
  Journal Representations
  Issue 49
  Year Winter, 1995
  Pages 100–1