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An image of the ovens at Buchenwald Concentration Camp. Buchenwald was opened in July, 1937 in Weimar, Germany and used by the Nazis primarily as a slave labor camp, although an extraordinary number of deaths occurred at the camp due to harsh conditions and human experimentation. 238,980 prisoners from thirty countries passed through Buchenwald and its satellite camps, of these 43,045 were killed before the camp was overtaken in April, 1945. Buchenwald was demolished in 1950, but the crematorium, hospital block and two towers remain.
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