'''Buchenwald''' was a [[Nazi]] concentration camp established in 1937 in Thuringia in eastern [[Germany]] to incarcerate [[Judaism|Jews]], political prisoners, [[homosexual]]s, and [[Jehovah's Witnesses]]. It was liberated by the [[United States]] Army on 12 April 1945. Although not an extermination camp, it is estimated that around 56,000 inmates of the camp perished. Between 1945 and 1950 Buchenwald was run as a prison camp for opponents of the [[Soviet]] regime in [[East Germany]]. | '''Buchenwald''' was a [[Nazi]] concentration camp established in 1937 in Thuringia in eastern [[Germany]] to incarcerate [[Judaism|Jews]], political prisoners, [[homosexual]]s, and [[Jehovah's Witnesses]]. It was liberated by the [[United States]] Army on 12 April 1945. Although not an extermination camp, it is estimated that around 56,000 inmates of the camp perished. Between 1945 and 1950 Buchenwald was run as a prison camp for opponents of the [[Soviet]] regime in [[East Germany]]. |