Buchenwald is a necessary detour to gauge the scale of Hitler's regression.
Buchenwald is a necessary detour to measure the extent of the regression of Hitler's Germany versus the weimarienne humanist tradition. It was in July 1937 that the Nazis began the construction of this immense concentration camp, where more than 250 000 people were deported, 65 000 died. A resistance cell inside the camp organized an uprising that led to his release on 11 April 1945. In the camp, one cannot detach the gaze of the mounds of black stone, the remnants of the burnt barracks at the end of the war. It is a vision that will accompany you long. The violent wind sweeping this huge plateau will not succeed in making your mind lighter.
In addition to the various sites and buildings inside the camp, a memorial built by the GDR, a huge sculpture with a 50 m high bell, dominates the entire valley.
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Opening time and information on BUCHENWALD MEMORIAL
Open Tuesday to Sunday and public holidays from April to October, from 10 to 6pm, from November to March from 10 to 4pm. Closed from December 24th to December 26th, on December 31st and on January 1st. Free admission. One can go to Buchenwald by the bus (Weimar-Buchenwald line) of the central train station of the slow trains or the place of the station. The camp is with a few kilometers north of the city. Follow the symbol of the memorial, a kind of pyramid.
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However the impersonal rehandling will be disappointed that made reunified Germany of it. The presentation at the time of the former GDR was more speaking, then rough because of formwork.
The site was however wrapped in a rich documentation, which runs from the portraits of torturers with their places to FRG after 1945, to the drawings made in situ by the concentration-like ones.
You will appreciate the motto of the welcome offered at the " residents newcomers " , a delicate sentence, always embedded in the entrance: " JEDEM DAS THE SEINE " in French: L'ALIVU EACH ON ITS OF!