One of the largest con­cen­tra­tion camps in Ger­many. Despite the fact that offi­cial­ly Buchen­wald did not have the sta­tus of a “death camp”, already in the sum­mer of 1937, the sys­tem­at­ic exter­mi­na­tion of peo­ple began there. From July 1937 to April 1945, approx­i­mate­ly 250,000 peo­ple were impris­oned in the camp and approx­i­mate­ly 56,000 peo­ple were killed.