Buchenwald [ German for Beech Wood ] was a concentration camp but not a fun place. The crematoria are still there. Most of the Sunday visitors are locals; it is somewhere to take the children. There is a a German website dealing with the place then and now at https://www.buchenwald.de/69/. It also covers Mittelbau-Dora. There are some videos but it is all in German.
Buchenwald Concentration Camp or KL Buchenwald
Is a bit north of Weimar in eastern Germany. The camp was seriously nasty. Most of the guards were enthusiastic sadists. F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas passed that way. His book, The White Rabbit [ his nom de guerre ] gives the nasty details at page 189 onwards. His testimony was very helpful in getting four perpetrators hanged. Jews were not treated as well.
PS There was a camp band as well as a brothel, costing 2 Marks a time. It was, notwithstanding a place of evil. It looks it to this day.
KL Buchenwald ex Wiki
Buchenwald concentration camp (German: Konzentrationslager (KZ) Buchenwald, IPA: [ˈbuːxənvalt]; literally, in English: beech forest) was a German Nazi concentration camp established on the Ettersberg (Etter Mountain) near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937, one of the first and the largest of the concentration camps on German soil, following Dachau's opening just over four years earlier.Prisoners from all over Europe and the Soviet Union—Jews, non-Jewish Poles and other Slavs, the mentally ill and physically-disabled from birth defects, religious and political prisoners, Roma and Sinti, Freemasons, Jehovah's Witnesses (then called Bible Students), criminals, homosexuals, and prisoners of war—worked primarily as forced labor in local armaments factories.[1] From 1945 to 1950, the camp was used by the Soviet occupation authorities as an internment camp, known as NKVD special camp number 2.
In mid-April, 1945, Weimar's civilians were required to complete a tour of the camp—to "see for themselves the horror, brutality and human indecency" perpetrated.[43] Many were in tears; others fainted and could be taken no further. Liberated inmates were dying at a rate of forty every day.[44].................
Soviet Special Camp 2
Further information: NKVD special camps
After liberation, between 1945 and February 10, 1950, the camp was administered by the Soviet Union and served as Special Camp No. 2 of the NKVD.[45] It was part of a "special camps" network operating since 1945, formally integrated into the Gulag in 1948.[46][47] Another infamous "special camp" in Soviet occupied Germany was the former Nazi concentration camp Sachsenhausen (special camp No. 7).[48]Between August 1945 and the dissolution on March 1, 1950, 28,455 prisoners, including 1,000 women, were held by the Soviet Union at Buchenwald.[49] A total of 7,113 people died in Special Camp Number 2, according to the Soviet records.[49] They were buried in mass graves in the woods surrounding the camp. Their relatives did not receive any notification of their deaths. Prisoners comprised alleged opponents of Stalinism, and alleged members of the Nazi Party or Nazi organizations; others were imprisoned due to identity confusion and arbitrary arrests.[50][51] The NKVD would not allow any contact of prisoners with the outside world[52] and did not attempt to determine the guilt of any individual prisoner.[51]
On January 6, 1950, Soviet Minister of Internal Affairs Kruglov ordered all special camps, including Buchenwald, to be handed over to the East German Ministry of Internal Affairs.[47]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittelbau-Dora_concentration_camp
Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp ex Wiki
Mittelbau-Dora (also Dora-Mittelbau and Nordhausen-Dora) was a Nazi concentration camp located near Nordhausen in Thuringia, Germany. It was established in late summer 1943 as a subcamp of Buchenwald concentration camp, supplying slave labour from many Eastern countries occupied by Germany (including evacuated survivors of eastern extermination camps), for extending the nearby tunnels in the Kohnstein and for manufacturing the V-2 rocket and the V-1 flying bomb. In the summer of 1944, Mittelbau became an independent concentration camp with numerous subcamps of its own. In 1945, most of the surviving inmates were evacuated by the SS. On 11 April 1945, US troops freed the remaining prisoners.The inmates at Dora-Mittelbau were treated in a brutal and inhumane manner, working 14-hour days and being denied access to basic hygiene, beds, and adequate rations. Around one in three of the roughly 60,000 prisoners who were sent to Dora-Mittelbau died.
Today, the site hosts a memorial and museum.