Buchenwald concentration camp
Buchenwald was a German Nazi concentration camp established on Ettersberg hill near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937. It was one of the first and the largest of the concentration camps within the Altreich territories.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Friedrich K., CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Historical site
- Description: Nazi concentration camp in Thuringia (1937–1945)
- Also known as: “Buchenwald” and “KZ Buchenwald”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include The Crematorium and Brunfthof.
The Crematorium
Memorial
The Crematorium is a memorial, which is situated 160 metres southeast of Buchenwald concentration camp.
Brunfthof
Archaeological site
Photo: Tsungam, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Brunfthof is an archaeological site, which is situated 1½ km east of Buchenwald concentration camp.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Alte Burg and Hottelstedt.
Hottelstedt
Village
Photo: Wikswat, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hottelstedt is a former municipality in the Weimarer Land district of Thuringia, Germany. Since 1 December 2007, it has been part of the municipality Berlstedt, which merged into the town Am Ettersberg on 1 January 2019.
Ettersburg
Village
Photo: MichaelWE, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
Ettersburg is a municipality in the Weimarer Land district of Thuringia, Germany.
Buchenwald concentration camp
- Categories: Nazi concentration camp, concentration camp, museum, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Weimar, Thuringia, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Buchenwald concentration camp” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Buchenwald-konsentrasiekamp”
- Afrikaans: “Buchenwald”
- Albanian: “Kampi i përqëndrimit Bukenvaldit”
- Arabic: “معسكر اعتقال بوخنفالد”
- Armenian: “Բուխենվալդ համակենտրոնացման ճամբար”
- Armenian: “Բուխենվալդ”
- Azerbaijani: “Buhenvald həbs düşərgəsi”
- Azerbaijani: “Buxenvald həbs düşərgəsi”
- Basque: “Buchenwald”
- Belarusian: “Бухенвальд”
- Belarusian: “Бухэнвальд”
- Breton: “Buchenwald”
- Bulgarian: “Бухенвалд”
- Catalan: “Buchenwald”
- Chinese: “布痕瓦尔德”
- Chinese: “布痕瓦尔德集中营”
- Chinese: “布痕瓦爾德集中營”
- Czech: “Buchenwald”
- Czech: “Koncentrační tábor Buchenwald”
- Czech: “KT Buchenwald”
- Danish: “Buchenwald koncentrationslejr”
- Danish: “Buchenwald”
- Dutch: “Buchenwald”
- Dutch: “Büchenwald”
- Dutch: “Concentratiekamp Buchenwald”
- Dutch: “Kamp Buchenwald”
- Esperanto: “Buchenwald”
- Estonian: “Buchenwaldi koonduslaager”
- Finnish: “Buchenwald”
- Finnish: “Buchenwaldin keskitysleiri”
- French: “Buchenwald”
- Galician: “Buchenwald”
- Galician: “campo de concentración de Buchenwald”
- Georgian: “ბუხენვალდის საკონცენტრაციო ბანაკი”
- German: “002”
- German: “Buchenwald”
- German: “K.-L. Buchenwald”
- German: “KL Buchenwald”
- German: “KLBu”
- German: “Konzentrationslager Buchenwald”
- German: “Konzentrationslager Weimar-Buchenwald”
- German: “KZ Buchenwald”
- Greek: “Στρατόπεδο συγκέντρωσης Μπούχενβαλντ”
- Hebrew: “בוכנוואלד”
- Hebrew: “בוכנוולד”
- Hungarian: “buchenwaldi koncentrációs tábor”
- Hungarian: “Buchenwaldi koncentrációs tábor”
- Indonesian: “Buchenwald concentration camp”
- Indonesian: “Kamp konsentrasi Buchenwald”
- Italian: “Buchenwald”
- Italian: “campo di concentramento di Buchenwald”
- Italian: “Campo di concentramento di Buchenwald”
- Japanese: “ブーヘンヴァルト”
- Japanese: “ブーヘンヴァルト強制収容所”
- Japanese: “ブッヘンヴァルト強制収容所”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Бухенвальд”
- Kirghiz: “Бухенвальд”
- Korean: “부헨발트 강제 수용소”
- Latvian: “Būhenvaldes koncentrācijas nometne”
- Luxembourgish: “KZ Buchenwald”
- Macedonian: “Концентрационен логор Бухенвалд”
- Malayalam: “ബുഷൻവാൾട് തടങ്കൽപ്പാളയം”
- Mingrelian: “ბუხენვალდიშ საკონცეტრაციე კარე”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Buchenwald”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Konsentrasjonsleiren Buchenwald”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “KZ Buchenwald”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Buchenwald”
- Norwegian: “Buchenwald”
- Persian: “اردوگاه بوخن والد”
- Persian: “اردوگاه بوخنوالت”
- Persian: “اردوگاه بوخنوالد”
- Persian: “اردوگاه بوخنوالد”
- Persian: “اردوگاه کار اجباری بوخن والد”
- Persian: “اردوگاه کار اجباری بوخنوالد”
- Persian: “اردوگاه مرگ بوخن والد”
- Persian: “اردوگاه مرگ بوخنوالد”
- Polish: “Buchenwald”
- Polish: “KL Buchenwald”
- Portuguese: “Buchenwald”
- Portuguese: “Campo de concentração de Buchenwald”
- Romanian: “Buchenwald”
- Romanian: “KZ Buchenwald”
- Romanian: “Lagărul de concentrare Buchenwald”
- Russian: “Бухенвальд”
- Serbian: “Koncentracioni logor Buhenvald”
- Serbian: “Konzentrationslager Buchenwald”
- Serbian: “Бухенвалд”
- Serbian: “Концентрациони логор Бухенвалд”
- Slovak: “Buchenwald”
- Slovak: “Koncentračný tábor Buchenwald”
- Slovenian: “Buchenwald”
- Slovenian: “Koncentracijsko taborišče Buchenwald”
- Spanish: “Buchenwald”
- Spanish: “Campo de concentracion de Buchenwald”
- Spanish: “Campo de concentración de Buchenwald”
- Swedish: “Buchenwald”
- Tatar: “Buxenwald”
- Thai: “Buchenwald”
- Thai: “ค่ายกักกันบูเคินวัลท์”
- Turkish: “Buchenwald toplama kampı”
- Turkish: “Buchenwald Toplama Kampı”
- Turkish: “Toplama Kampı Buchenwald”
- Ukrainian: “Бухенвальд”
- Ukrainian: “Концтабір Бухенвальд”
- Upper Sorbian: “Buchenwald”
- Upper Sorbian: “Koncentraciske lěhwo Buchenwald”
- Upper Sorbian: “KZ Buchenwald”
- Uzbek: “Buxenvald”
- Vietnamese: “Trại tập trung Buchenwald”
- Western Frisian: “Buchenwald”
- Western Panjabi: “بوخنولڈ عقوبتی کیمپ”
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