11 April 2020 – 75th Anniversary
of the liberation of the
Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora concentration camps
400,000-m² prisoner camp
3,500 metres of electric barbed-wire fence
139 satellite camps
277,800 prisoners
30,000 minors
28,230 women
249,570 men
from more than 50 countries
56,000 deaths
1,944 men, women and children sent with death transports to Auschwitz
February 1938: 2,728 prisoners
February 1945: 112,050 prisoners
Prisoners’ ages: from 2 up to 86 years old
7-10 April 1945: 28,000 prisoners evacuated on a Death march
11. April 1945: 21,000 prisoners liberated
9.000 SS-guards and female wardens, only 79 condemned post 1945
Aerial shot of the liberated camp, April 1945