Buchenwald was a German Nazi concentration camp established on Ettersberg hill near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937. It was one of the first and the largest of the concentration camps within the Altreic
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The inscription on the entrance gate to Buchenwald concentration camp, which reads: "Jedem das Seine" ("To each what he deserves")
Dutch Jews stand during a roll call after their prisoner transport from Buchenwald in May 1941 in camp Mauthausen on 26 June 1941.
Karl-Otto Koch
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Karl-Otto Koch was a German military officer who was a mid-ranking commander in the Schutzstaffel of Nazi Germany, and the first commandant of the Nazi concentration camps at Buchenwald and Sachsenhau
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…the National Socialists and was prohibited. This defiance however went unnoticed by the SS. Buchenwald's first commandant was SS-Obersturmbannführer Karl-Otto Koch, who ran the camp from 1 August 1937 to July 1941. His second wife, Ilse Koch, became notorious as Die Hexe von Buchenwald ("the witch of Buchenwald…
Koch, c. 1940