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Concentration camp Buchenwald (Beech Forest) was founded by the Nazis in 1937 close by the city of Wiemar, that represented a center of German cultural life. Tragic story of this place was not finished together with the end of WWII. The camp was overtaken by the Red Army and renamed to "Special Camp No. 2". Initially it was used for imprisoning of German war criminals. Shortly after, under conduct of NKVD, it was used for internment of soviet political prisoners. From 1945 until 1950, when the camp was abandoned,
7 113 people were killed there.
Concentration camp Buchenwald (Beech Forest) was founded by the Nazis in 1937 close by the city of Wiemar, that represented a center of German cultural life. Tragic story of this place was not finished together with the end of WWII. The camp was overtaken by the Red Army and renamed to "Special Camp No. 2". Initially it was used for imprisoning of German war criminals. Shortly after, under conduct of NKVD, it was used for internment of soviet political prisoners. From 1945 until 1950, when the camp was abandoned,
7 113 people were killed there.
