Buchenwald
Together with its many satellite camps, Buchenwald was one of the largest concentration camps established within the old German borders of 1937. The camp was constructed in 1937 in a wooded area on the northern slopes of the Ettersberg, about five miles northwest of Weimar in east-central Germany. Before the Nazi takeover of power, Weimar was best known as the home of leading literary figure Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a product of German liberal tradition in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and as the birthplace of German constitutional democracy in 1919, the Weimar Republic. During the Nazi regime, "Weimar" became associated with the Buchenwald concentration camp.
President Barack Obama visited Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany on June 5, 2009, during his trip to Europe. Read the Museum’s Press Release and the full text of his speech, in which he repudiates Holocaust denial. June 6, 2009, marked the 65th anniversary of D-Day. Obama’s great-uncle Charlie Payne, with the US Army in 1945, was one of the liberators of Ohrdruf, a satellite forced-labor camp close to Buchenwald. Buchenwald, together with its many satellite camps, was one of the largest concentration camps established by the Nazis.
President Barack Obama visited Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany on June 5, 2009, during his trip to Europe. Read the Museum’s Press Release and the full text of his speech, in which he repudiates Holocaust denial. June 6, 2009, marked the 65th anniversary of D-Day. Obama’s great-uncle Charlie Payne, with the US Army in 1945, was one of the liberators of Ohrdruf, a satellite forced-labor camp close to Buchenwald. Buchenwald, together with its many satellite camps, was one of the largest concentration camps established by the Nazis.