Dachau, the first concentration camp, opened on 22 March 1933 - less than two months after Hitler came to power.
In April 1933 small concentration camps sprang up in all kinds of places, but most these were later closed by mid 1934.
From 1937 additional camps were built, starting with Buchenwald.
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∙ 15y agoConcentration Camps were not a German idea. They were first used in Cuba in the 1890's by the Spanish, this was one of the causes of the Spanish-American War.
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∙ 10y agoBuchenwald concentration camp was created in 1937.
Buchenwald was a concentration camp.
Buchenwald concentration camp was established on 16 July 1937
It was a concentration camp.
Buchenwald Concentration Camp
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Buchenwald (and Dachau, and Belzek) were created in 1933.
Buchenwald was a concentration camp.
Buchenwald concentration camp was established on 16 July 1937
The Nazis were involved in the concentration camp Buchenwald because it was a camp for political prisoners.
It was a concentration camp.
Buchenwald Concentration Camp
about 100 acres
Eliezer's father dies at the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany.
Around 2,000
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Buchenwald concentration camp was in Germany, cleverly hidden in forests about 5 miles from Weimar (Thuringia) - the town which Germans have traditionally regarded as one of the most important centres of German culture!Buchenwald is near Weimar, in Thuringia, in central Germany. It opened as a concentration camp in 1937.
Buchenwald was one of the first concentration camps in Nazi Germany as well as one of the largest. It was not an extermination camp, but still had a large number of prisoner deaths. The approximate number of deaths at the camp was 56,545.