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65-504: The town lies directly on the route E92 and includes an aerosport facility run by the Poznań flying club, Wanda Modlibiowska. There are various companies based in the town, in particular carpentry and upholstering businesses. In addition a bicycle path from Poznań runs through the Dębiniec nature reserve and finally through the town to Pobiedziska . The etymology of Swarzędz is often taken as

130-632: A Military Commission Court at Dachau . The life sentence imposed by the Dachau court was reduced to four years upon review. Upon her release from U.S. custody in October 1949, she was arrested by West German authorities, tried at Augsburg, and again sentenced to life imprisonment; she committed suicide in Aichach (Bavaria) prison in September 1967. The second commandant of the camp, between 1942 and 1945,

195-705: A Polish council under leadership of Tadeusz Staniewski, and began preparations to rejoin Poland. In January 1919, the first volunteers set out from Swarzędz to fight in the Greater Poland Uprising , the aim of which was to reunite the region with Poland. The town was soon successfully restored to Poland. In the interbellum the workshop of Antoni Tabaka grew into a large furniture factory, the first mechanized furniture factory in Poland, and its products enjoyed great popularity also abroad. In 1934 town limits were expanded. During World War II , from 1939 to 1945,

260-467: A bunk. The stink was beyond all description. They called the doctor. We inspected his records. There were only names in the little black book, nothing more. Nothing about who these men were, what they had done, or hoped. Behind the names of those who had died, there was a cross. I counted them. They totaled 242. 242 out of 1,200, in one month. As we walked out into the courtyard, a man fell dead. Two others, they must have been over 60, were crawling toward

325-1023: A concentration camp: first, that they had managed to make contact with the French Resistance , some were disguised as civilians, and they were carrying false papers when caught; they were therefore categorized by the Germans as spies , which meant their rights under the Geneva Convention were not respected. The second explanation is that they had been categorised as Terrorflieger ("terror aviators"). The aviators were initially held in Gestapo prisons and headquarters in France. In April or August 1944, they and other Gestapo prisoners were packed into covered goods wagons and sent to Buchenwald. The journey took five days, during which they received very little food or water. A primary cause of death

390-493: A greater potential to profit the SS because the nearby clay deposits could be made into bricks by the forced labor of prisoners. The first prisoners arrived on 15 July 1937, and had to clear the area of trees and build the camp's structures. By September, the population had risen to 2,400 following transfers from Bad Sulza, Sachsenburg, and Lichtenburg. On the camp's main gate, the motto Jedem das Seine (English: "To each his own"),

455-463: A museum with permanent exhibitions about the history of the camp. It is managed by Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation, which also looks after the camp memorial at Mittelbau-Dora . Survivors who have written about their camp experiences include Jorge Semprún , who in Quel beau dimanche! describes conversations involving Goethe and Léon Blum , and Ernst Wiechert , whose Der Totenwald

520-483: A number of smaller camps comprising the Buchenwald complex. There, the division liberated over 21,000 prisoners, ordered the mayor of Langenstein to send food and water to the camp, and hurried medical supplies forward from the 20th Field Hospital. Third Army Headquarters sent elements of the 80th Infantry Division to take control of the camp on the morning of Thursday 12 April 1945. Several journalists arrived on

585-404: A proof for the area's importance in the pre-Christian cult of Svarog . The documentary evidence for a settlement on the site of modern-day Swarzędz comes from 1366. In 1377 there is mention of a rectory in the settlement. Due to its advantageous location on the route from Poznań to Masovia the town developed well. The settlement was formerly in private ownership. Originally the property of

650-412: A radio installation at the facility where people were executed; he counted the numbers, which arrived by telex, and hid the information. He says that 8,483 Soviet prisoners of war were shot in this manner. According to the same source, the total number of deaths at Buchenwald is estimated at 56,545. This number is the sum of: This total (56,545) corresponds to a death rate of 24 percent, assuming that

715-469: A site of large-scale trials for vaccines against epidemic typhus in 1942 and 1943. In all 729 inmates were used as test subjects, of whom 154 died. Other "experimentation" occurred at Buchenwald on a smaller scale. One such experiment aimed at determining the precise fatal dose of a poison of the alkaloid group; according to the testimony of one doctor, four Soviet POWs were administered the poison, and when it proved not to be fatal they were "strangled in

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780-450: A tour of Dresden Castle and Church of Our Lady . During the visit they were accompanied by Elie Wiesel and Bertrand Herz , both survivors of the camp. Volkhard Knigge  [ de ] , the director of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation and honorary professor of University of Jena , guided the four guests through the remainder of the site of the camp. During the visit Wiesel, who together with Herz were sent to

845-513: Is a town in Poznań County , Poland , with 8,209 inhabitants as of the year 2004. It is also the seat of the administrative district ( gmina ) called Gmina Pobiedziska . The town's name comes from the word pobieda meaning victory. It was named by Casimir I the Restorer in 1048 AD , possibly to commemorate his defeat of Masław , a rebellious Masovian namiestnik . In 1257, Pobiedziska

910-507: The Duchy of Warsaw , though when the Duchy collapsed in 1815, the town again fell under Prussian rule. At the end of the 19th century carpentry flourished. In 1887 the town was connected to the railroad from Poznań to Września and thus received another important means of transport to other parts of the country, together with the road from Warsaw to Poznań. To resist Germanisation policies,

975-600: The Greater Poland Province . The town was often visited by Władysław Jagiełło . In 1423 he funded the construction of a Church of the Holy Spirit as well as a hospital for the poor. After a century of anarchy in Poland, the country was partitioned between Europe's three Great Powers, Russia, Prussia and Austria. During the Second Partition of Poland , the province of Posen was annexed by

1040-674: The Kingdom of Prussia in 1793. After the Napoleonic wars it was re-annexed by Prussia in 1815, and from 1871 Posen province was also part of German Empire . The Treaty of Versailles awarded Posen province, including the town, to the new resurrected Poland. Following the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland , which started World War II in September 1939, the town was occupied by Germany until 1945. The first expulsions of 218 Poles were carried out in December 1939. A local unit of

1105-477: The Little camp as 16-year-old boys, said, "if these trees could talk." His statement marked the irony about the beauty of the landscape and the horrors that took place within the camp. President Obama mentioned during his visit that he had heard stories as a child from his great uncle, who was part of the 89th Infantry Division , the first Americans to reach the camp at Ohrdruf, one of Buchenwald's satellites. Obama

1170-514: The Order of Polonia Restituta , one of Poland's highest state orders. There is a railway station in Swarzędz. The town has railway connections with major Polish cities such as Poznań , Warsaw , Łódź and Szczecin . The local football club is Unia Swarzędz  [ pl ] . It competes in the lower leagues. Pobiedziska Pobiedziska ( [pɔbʲɛˈd͡ʑiska] ) ( German : Pudewitz )

1235-504: The Soviet secret police imprisoned former Nazis and anti-communist dissidents. According to Soviet records, 28,455 people were detained, 7,113 of whom died. After the NKVD camp closed, much of the camp was razed, while signs were erected to provide a Soviet interpretation of the camp's legacy. The first monument to victims was erected by Buchenwald inmates days after the initial liberation. It

1300-456: The U.S. Third Army responded: KZ Bu. Hold out. Rushing to your aid. Staff of Third Army. According to Teofil Witek, a fellow Polish prisoner who witnessed the transmissions, Damazyn fainted after receiving the message. As American forces closed in, Gestapo headquarters at Weimar telephoned the camp administration to announce that it was sending explosives to blow up any evidence of the camp, including its inmates. The Gestapo did not know that

1365-495: The U.S. Third Army , and under the command of Captain Frederic Keffer, arrived at Buchenwald on 11 April 1945 at 3:15 p.m. (now the permanent time of the clock at the entrance gate). The soldiers were given a hero's welcome, with the emaciated survivors finding the strength to toss some liberators into the air in celebration. Later in the day, elements of the U.S. 83rd Infantry Division overran Langenstein, one of

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1430-603: The Wielkopolska Organizacja Wojskowa Polish resistance organization was founded already in 1939, and the following year it became part of the larger Wojskowa Organizacja Ziem Zachodnich organization. Mieczysław Golus, commander of the local unit of the Union of Armed Struggle , was arrested by the Germans in 1942 and then sentenced to death and executed the following year. Sights of Pobiedziska include: There are two railway stations in

1495-400: The "singing forest", so named because of the screams which emanated from this wooded area. Summary executions of Soviet POWs were also carried out at Buchenwald. At least 1,000 men were selected in 1941–42 by a task force of three Dresden Gestapo officers and sent to the camp for immediate liquidation by a gunshot to the back of the neck, the infamous Genickschuss . The camp was also

1560-565: The Allies. To the army of General Patton . This is the Buchenwald concentration camp. SOS. We request help. They want to evacuate us. The SS wants to destroy us. The text was repeated several times in English, German, and Russian. Damazyn sent the English and German transmissions, while Leonov sent the Russian version. Three minutes after the last transmission sent by Damazyn, the headquarters of

1625-456: The GDR. The political instrumentalisation of these memorials, especially for the current needs of the GDR, became particularly clear during the major celebrations of the liberation of the concentration camps, as historian Anne-Kathleen Tillack-Graf analysis in her thesis about the official party newspaper Neues Deutschland . Today the Buchenwald camp site serves as a Holocaust memorial. It has

1690-678: The German people would take responsibility for Nazi crimes, instead of dismissing them as atrocity propaganda . Gen. Dwight Eisenhower also invited two groups of Americans to tour the camp in mid-April 1945; journalists and editors from some of the principal U.S. publications, and then a dozen members of the Congress from both the House and the Senate, led by Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley . War correspondent Osmar White reported that above

1755-624: The Germans in the infamous Fort VII in Poznań and afterwards deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp , where he was killed in August 1940. Stanisław Kwaśniewski, commander of the 1919 Swarzędz insurgent unit, was killed by the Germans in Fort VII. From 1941 to 1943 a Nazi German labour camp for Jews was located in the town. In 1988 Swarzędz was awarded with the Commander's Cross of

1820-523: The Gestapo". Furthermore, from 1941, Soviet POWs were executed in mass killings. Arriving prisoners selected for execution were not entered into the camp register and therefore were not among the 33,462 dead listed. One former Buchenwald prisoner, Armin Walter, calculated the number of executions by the number of shootings in the spine at the base of the head. His job at Buchenwald was to set up and care for

1885-651: The Nazi regime. All prisoners worked primarily as forced labor in local armaments factories. The insufficient food and poor conditions, as well as deliberate executions, led to 56,545 deaths at Buchenwald of the 280,000 prisoners who passed through the camp and its 139 subcamps . The camp gained notoriety when it was liberated by the United States Army in April 1945; Allied commander Dwight D. Eisenhower visited one of its subcamps. From August 1945 to March 1950,

1950-523: The Polish population founded various organizations, including the "Sokół" Polish Gymnastic Society . In 1905 local Polish industrialist Antoni Tabaka founded a carpentry workshop. In 1906–1907 local Polish school children joined the strike against Germanisation, inspired by the Września children strike . Poland regained independence after World War I on November 11, 1918, and two days later local Poles founded

2015-418: The administrators had already fled. A prisoner answered the phone and informed headquarters that explosives would not be needed, as the camp had already been blown up, which was not true. US Corporal Rick Carrier discovered the camp on April 10th 1945, and reported the location up the chain of command. A detachment of troops of the U.S. 9th Armored Infantry Battalion, from the 6th Armored Division , part of

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2080-400: The camp was used by the Soviet occupation authorities as an internment camp, NKVD special camp Nr. 2 , where 28,455 prisoners were held and 7,113 of whom died. Today the remains of Buchenwald serve as a memorial and permanent exhibition and museum. The Schutzstaffel (SS) established Buchenwald concentration camp at the beginning of July 1937. The camp was to be named Ettersberg , after

2145-588: The camp workers for personal gain. Other camp officials were charged, including Ilse Koch. The trial resulted in Karl Koch being sentenced to death for disgracing both himself and the SS; he was executed by firing squad on 5 April 1945, one week before American troops arrived. Ilse Koch was acquitted by the SS court and released. However, she was rearrested by American occupation authorities in June 1945, and chosen as one of 31 Buchenwald defendants to stand trial before

2210-483: The camp's brothel . The SS later fired the SS woman on duty in the brothel for corruption; her position was taken over by "brothel mothers" as ordered by SS chief Heinrich Himmler . The majority of women prisoners, however, arrived in 1944 and 1945 from other camps, mainly Auschwitz , Ravensbrück , and Bergen Belsen . Only one barracks was set aside for them; this was overseen by the female block leader ( Blockführerin ) Franziska Hoengesberg, who came from Essen when it

2275-405: The camp, near the canteen, so that oftentimes Ilse Koch could be seen riding in the morning to the beat of the prisoner orchestra. Koch himself was eventually imprisoned at Buchenwald by the Nazi authorities for incitement to murder. The charges were lodged by Prince Waldeck and Morgen , to which were later added charges of corruption , embezzlement , black market dealings, and exploitation of

2340-429: The camp, nor ever acted as guard. In total, however, more than 530 women served as guards in the vast Buchenwald system of subcamps and external commands across Germany. Only 22 women served/trained in Buchenwald, compared to over 15,500 men. About 136 subcamps and satellite commandos belonged to Buchenwald concentration camp. In 1942, the SS began to use its forced labor supply for armaments production. Because it

2405-662: The camp, the Belgian Edmond Vandievoet, recounted his experiences in a book whose English title is "I escaped from a Nazi Death Camp" [Editions Jourdan, 2015]. In his work Night , Elie Wiesel talks about his stay in Buchenwald, including his father's death. Jacques Lusseyran , a leader in the underground resistance to the German occupation of France, was eventually sent to Buchenwald after being arrested, and described his time there in his autobiography. On 5 June 2009 U.S. President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited Buchenwald after

2470-563: The choice between slave labor or inevitable execution. Many inmates were killed by human experimentation or fell victim to arbitrary acts perpetrated by the SS guards. Other prisoners were simply murdered, primarily by shooting and hanging. As part of Action 14f13 , prisoners deemed too weak or sick to work were sent to Sonnenstein Killing Facility , where they were murdered with carbon monoxide gas. Walter Gerhard Martin Sommer

2535-575: The coat of arms of Swarzędz since. Administratively it was located in the Poznań Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Polish Crown . In the 17th century, guilds for tradesmen and craftsmen were formed. In 1793 during the Second Partition of Poland the town of some 2,508 inhabitants was annexed by Prussia . In 1798, 448 craftsmen lived in the town. Of these, 70 were cloth makers and 36 weavers. In 1807 Swarzędz became part of

2600-451: The crematorium door was a verse beginning 'Worms shall not devour me, but flames consume this body. I always loved the heat and light…'. Thirty SS perpetrators at Buchenwald were tried before a US military tribunal in 1947, including Higher SS and Police Leader Josias Erbprinz zu Waldeck und Pyrmont , who oversaw the SS district that Buchenwald was located in, and many of the doctors responsible for Nazi human experimentation. Almost all of

2665-415: The crematorium" and subsequently "dissected". Among various other experiments was one which, in order to test the effectiveness of a balm for wounds from incendiary bombs , involved inflicting "very severe" white phosphorus burns on inmates. When challenged at trial over the nature of this testing, and particularly over the fact that the testing was designed in some cases to cause death and only to measure

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2730-434: The defendants were convicted, and 22 were sentenced to death. However, only nine death sentences were carried out, and by the mid-1950s, all perpetrators had been freed except for Ilse Koch , who was tried by a West German court and given a life sentence. Additional perpetrators were tried before German courts during the 1960s. Between August 1945 and 1 March 1950, Buchenwald was the site of NKVD special camp Nr. 2 , where

2795-581: The efforts of Polish engineer (and short-wave radio-amateur , his pre-war callsign was SP2BD) Gwidon Damazyn, an inmate since March 1941, a secret short-wave transmitter and small generator were built and hidden in the prisoners' movie room. On April 8 at noon, Damazyn and Russian prisoner Konstantin Ivanovich Leonov sent the Morse code message prepared by leaders of the prisoners' underground resistance (supposedly Walter Bartel and Harry Kuhn): To

2860-589: The hill in Thuringia upon whose north slope the camp was established. The proposed name was deemed inappropriate because it carried associations with several important figures in German culture, especially Enlightenment writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe who had lived in Weimar . Instead the camp was to be named Buchenwald, in reference to the beech forest in the area. However, Holocaust researcher James E. Young  [ de ] wrote that SS leaders chose

2925-429: The latrine. I saw it, but will not describe it. After Patton toured the camp, he ordered the mayor of Weimar to bring 1,000 citizens to Buchenwald; these were to be predominantly men of military age from the middle and upper classes. The Germans had to walk 25 kilometres (16 mi) roundtrip under armed American guard and were shown the crematorium and other evidence of Nazi atrocities. The Americans wanted to ensure that

2990-589: The main camp, with prisoners provided insufficient food and inadequate shelter. Although it was highly unusual for German authorities to send Western Allied POWs to concentration camps, Buchenwald held a group of 168 aviators for two months. These men were from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Jamaica. They all arrived at Buchenwald on 20 August 1944. All these airmen were in aircraft that had crashed in occupied France . Two explanations are given for them being sent to

3055-488: The number of persons passing through the camp according to documents left by the SS, 240,000 prisoners, is accurate. On 4 April 1945 the U.S. 89th Infantry Division overran Ohrdruf , a subcamp of Buchenwald. Buchenwald was partially evacuated by the Germans from 6 to 11 April 1945. In the days before the arrival of the American army, thousands of the prisoners were forcibly evacuated on foot . Thanks in large part to

3120-483: The same day, perhaps with the 80th, including Edward R. Murrow , whose radio report of his arrival and reception was broadcast on CBS and became one of his most famous: I asked to see one of the barracks. It happened to be occupied by Czechoslovaks. When I entered, men crowded around, tried to lift me to their shoulders. They were too weak. Many of them could not get out of bed. I was told that this building had once stabled 80 horses. There were 1,200 men in it, five to

3185-421: The site of the camp precisely to erase the cultural legacy of the area. After the area of the camp was cleared of trees, only one large oak remained, supposedly one of Goethe's Oaks . The camp, designed to hold 8,000 prisoners, was intended to replace several smaller concentration camps nearby, including Bad Sulza  [ de ] , Sachsenburg , and Lichtenburg . Compared to these camps, Buchenwald had

3250-515: The temperature of human skin, all year round. The three National Memorials of the GDR, built next to or on the sites of the former concentration camps Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen , and Ravensbrück , played a central role in the GDR's remembrance policy under Erich Honecker . They were controlled by the Ministry of Culture and thus by the government. According to their statute, these memorials served as places of identification and legitimisation of

3315-566: The time which elapsed until death was caused, one Nazi doctor's defence was that, although a doctor, he was a "legally appointed executioner". The SS left behind accounts of the number of prisoners and people coming to and leaving the camp, categorizing those leaving them by release, transfer, or death. These accounts are one of the sources of estimates for the number of deaths in Buchenwald. According to SS documents, 33,462 died. These documents were not, however, necessarily accurate: Among those executed before 1944, many were listed as "transferred to

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3380-472: The town was under German occupation . Poles were subjected to expulsions , carried out in late 1939 and in 1940. The local furniture factory was seized by the occupiers and handed over to Germans, while its owner was expelled to Warsaw , and later also imprisoned in the Mauthausen concentration camp , where he died of exhaustion in 1945. Tadeusz Staniewski, mayor of Swarzędz, was imprisoned and tortured by

3445-468: The town: Pobiedziska and Pobiedziska Letnisko, and the voivodeship road 194 passes through the town. Pobiedziska is home to the football team Huragan Pobiedziska . Buchenwald concentration camp Buchenwald ( German pronunciation: [ˈbuːxn̩valt] ; literally ' beech forest ') was a Nazi concentration camp established on Ettersberg hill near Weimar , Germany , in July 1937. It

3510-551: The Łodzia noble family , from the 15th century it passed to the Górka noble family of Łodzia coat of arms . In 1638 the town Grzymałowo , named after the Grzymała coat of arms of its founder, voivode of Kalisz Zygmunt Grudziński , was founded at the site of the village, however, it remained known under the old name Swarzędz. The town rights were confirmed by Polish King Władysław IV Vasa . Combined Łodzia and Grzymała coats of arms are

3575-532: Was Hermann Pister (1942–1945). He was tried in 1947 ( Dachau Trials ) and sentenced to death, but on 28 September 1948 he died in Landsberg Prison of a heart attack. The number of women held in Buchenwald was somewhere between 500 and 1,000. The first female inmates were twenty political prisoners who were accompanied by a female SS guard ( Aufseherin ) ; these women were brought to Buchenwald from Ravensbrück in 1941 and forced into sexual slavery at

3640-406: 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") for her cruelty and brutality. In February 1940 Koch had an indoor riding hall built by the prisoners who died by the dozen due to the harsh conditions of the construction site. The hall was built inside

3705-461: Was an SS- Hauptscharführer who served as a guard at the concentration camps of Dachau and Buchenwald. Known as the "Hangman of Buchenwald", he was considered a depraved sadist who reportedly ordered Otto Neururer and Mathias Spanlang , two Austrian priests, to be crucified upside-down . Sommer was especially infamous for hanging prisoners from trees by their wrists, which had been tied behind their backs (a torture technique known as strappado ) in

3770-489: Was evacuated. All the women prisoners were later shipped out to one of Buchenwald's many female satellite camps in Sömmerda , Buttelstedt , Mühlhausen , Gotha , Gelsenkirchen , Essen , Lippstadt , Weimar , Magdeburg , and Penig , to name a few. No female guards were permanently stationed at Buchenwald. Contrary to popular opinion, the notorious "Bitch of Buchenwald" Ilse Koch never served in any official capacity at

3835-781: Was granted town privileges by Duke Przemysl who was co-ruler of Posen , making the town independent from the Ostrów Lednicki castellany. In the various campaigns initiated by the Poles, in 1331, the town was destroyed by the Teutonic Knights and it took many years to recover. It was a royal town of the Kingdom of Poland, administratively located in the Gniezno County in the Kalisz Voivodeship in

3900-468: Was illness due to harsh camp conditions. Like all concentration camps, prisoners at Buchenwald were deliberately kept in a state of starvation , many while performing grueling forced labor , making consequent illnesses prevalent. Malnourished and suffering from disease, many were literally "worked to death" under the Vernichtung durch Arbeit policy ( extermination through labor ), as inmates only had

3965-477: Was inscribed. The SS interpreted this to mean the " master race " had a right to humiliate and destroy others. It was designed by Buchenwald prisoner and Bauhaus architect Franz Ehrlich , who used a Bauhaus typeface for it, even though Bauhaus was seen as degenerate art by the National Socialists and was prohibited. This defiance however went unnoticed by the SS. Buchenwald's first commandant

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4030-510: Was made of wood and only intended to be temporary. A second monument to commemorate the dead was erected in 1958 by the German Democratic Republic (GDR) government near the mass graves. It was inaugurated on 14 September 1958 by GDR Prime Minister Otto Grotewohl . Inside the camp, there is a stainless steel monument on the spot where the first, temporary monument stood. Its surface is maintained at 37 °C (99 °F),

4095-478: Was more economical to rent out prisoners to private firms, subcamps were set up near factories which had a demand for prisoner labor. Private firms paid the SS between 4 and 6 Reichsmarks per day per prisoner, resulting in an estimated 95,758,843 Reichsmarks in revenue for the SS between June 1943 and February 1945. So the subcamps of Buchenwald were mainly used for armament production and other fabrications and are considered labour camps. Conditions were worse than at

4160-578: Was one of the first and the largest of the concentration camps within the Altreich . Many actual or suspected communists were among the first internees. Prisoners came from all over Europe and the Soviet Union , and included Jews , Poles , and other Slavs , the mentally ill, and physically disabled, political prisoners, Romani people , Freemasons , and prisoners of war. There were also ordinary criminals and those perceived as sexual deviants by

4225-484: Was written in 1939 but not published until 1945, and which likewise involved Goethe. Scholars have investigated how camp inmates used art to help deal with their circumstances, and according to Theodor Ziolkowski writers often did so by turning to Goethe. Artist Léon Delarbre sketched, besides other scenes of camp life, the Goethe Oak , under which he used to sit and write. One of the few prisoners who escaped from

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