Buchenwald

"The first concentration camps in Germany were built after the mass arrests which accompanied Hitler’s seizure of power in 1933. While these camps did not last for a long time in many cases, the number of new and large camps started to rise continuously during the second half of the 1930’s. They formed a network which covered Germany and was extended subsequently to every occupied country. The names of these camps became synonymous with traumatic experience such as hunger, cold, torture, and the murder of millions of men, women, and children.

The concentration camp on Ettersberg Hill near Weimar was founded in 1937 and its name later changed to Buchenwald. Located 8 kilometers from Wiemar, this location was to become infamously engraved upon the world’s memory".

Buchenwald: A Tour of the Memorial Site, p. 5. Published in 1993 by the Buchenwald Memorial.