Buchenwald concentration camp

Germany

Quote

"Jedem das Seine" is a German proverb meaning "to each his own" or "to each what he deserves." Used as it was by the Nazis, the inmates could only read this slogan once they were trapped inside the camp and the gate to freedom has clanged shut.

Appearance

Climate

Districts

-- Appellplatz
-- Block 45
-- Block 46
-- Buchenwald Camp Brothel
-- Büro des Kommandanten: (Office of the Commandant)
-- Konzentrationslager Buchenwald zoologischen Gärten: (Buchenwald concentration camp zoological gardens)
-- Buchenwald Memorial Park
-- Buchenwald Bell Tower Memorial
-- Crematorium
-- Kinobaracke: (cinema)
-- Inmates' canteen
-- Little Camp
-- Rail-station
-- Sonderlager für sowjetische Kriegsgefangene: (Special camp for Soviet PoWs)
-- SS barracks complex

-- Stables & Riding Academy
-- Storehouse
-- The Quarry
-- Verwaltungsgebäude: (Camp Administration building)
-- Watchtower

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Population

Zero - living.

Concentration Camp Lexicon

Appellplatz: is a compound German word meaning "roll call" (Appell) and "area" or "place" (Platz). In English, the word is generally used to describe the location for the daily roll calls in Nazi concentration camps.

Lagerordnung: was the "Disciplinary and Penal Code", first written for Dachau concentration camp, which became the uniform code at all SS concentration camps in the Third Reich on January 1, 1934. Also known as the Strafkatalog (Punishment Catalogue), it detailed the regulations for prisoners. SS guards were instructed to report violations of the code to the commandant's office. The Concentration Camps Inspectorate was responsible for execution of the resulting punishment, which was carried out without verification of the allegations or any possibility of vindication.

Muselmann: Muselmann (pl. Muselmänner, from the German, meaning Muslim) was a derogatory term used among captives of World War II Nazi concentration camps to refer to those suffering from a combination of starvation (known also as "hunger disease") and exhaustion and who were resigned to their impending death. The Muselmann prisoners exhibited severe emaciation and physical weakness, an apathetic listlessness regarding their own fate, and unresponsiveness to their surroundings.

Selektion: The selection of inmates for execution or slave labor at an extermination or concentration camp.