What is Buchenwald concentration camp?
[[Image:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1983-0825-303, Gedenkstätte Buchenwald, Wachturm, Stacheldrahtzaun.jpg|thumb|[[Watchtower]] at the memorial site Buchenwald, in 1983]] '''Buchenwald concentration camp''' was a [[Nazi concentration camps|Nazi concentration camp]] during [[World War II]]. In [[German language|German]], the camp was called ''Konzentrationslager (KZ) Buchenwald.'' It was built in [[Germany]] in 1937, and stayed open until 1945. Buchenwald was one of the first and largest [[labor camps]] built in [[Germany]]. The [[Nazis]] sent people from all over [[Europe]] and the [[Soviet Union]] to Buchenwald. There, they were [[prisoner]]s and did [[forced labor]] in [[weapon]]s [[factory|factories]].<ref name=memorial>{{cite web |url= http://www.buchenwald.de/en/69/ |title=Buchenwald Memorial: Historical Overview |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |website=Buchenwald Memorial |publisher=Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation |access-date=January 10, 2016 }}</ref> After the [[Allies of World War II|Allies]] won World War II, the Soviet Union took over Buchenwald and some other parts of Germany. From 1945 to 1950, they used Buchenwald as an [[internment camp]]. They called it NKVD Special Camp Number 2. (The [[NKVD]] was the Soviet police organization that ran the camp.) On January 6, 1950, the Soviets handed over Buchenwald to the [[East Germany|East German]] Ministry of Internal Affairs. Today, what is left of Buchenwald is a [[memorial]]. There is also a [[museum]] there.<ref name=Foundation>{{cite web |title= Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation - Purpose of the Foundation |url= http://www.buchenwald.de/english/index.php?p=stiftungszweck |publisher= Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation |access-date= 18 August 2012 |archive-date= 4 March 2012 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120304210835/http://www.buchenwald.de/english/index.php?p=stiftungszweck |url-status= dead }}</ref> ==History== The Nazis built Buchenwald on the ''Ettersberg'' (Etter