Buchenwald concentration camp

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. When was Buchenwald concentration camp built?July 1937 by the SS
2. What is the location?Ettersberg hill, near Weimar, Germany
3. What is the prisoner demographics?Included Jews, political opponents, Roma, disabled individuals, prisoners of war, and others
4. What was Buchenwald?Buchenwald was a Nazi concentration camp in Germany where many people were forced to work and many died.
5. Why was Buchenwald called a forest?Its name means "beech forest" and it was built on a hill surrounded by trees, so it looked like a peaceful forest.

SS (Schutzstaffel): A major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, responsible for operating concentration camps.
Altreich: The territories of Germany before the annexations of 1938 and 1939.
NKVD: The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs, a Soviet security agency responsible for law enforcement and state security.