Stock Photo - Concentration camp (Konzentrationslager (KZ) Buchenwald, Germany on April 20, 2014. Concentration camp Buchenwald was founded by German Nazis in July 1937 near the city Weimar. Prisoners from all over Europe and the Soviet Union-Jews, Poles and other Slavs, the mentally ill and physically-disabled from birth defects, religious and political prisoners, Roma and Sinti, Freemasons, Jehovah's Witnesses (then called Bible Students), criminals, homosexuals, and prisoners of war worked primarily as forced labor in local armaments factories. Between April 1938 and April 1945, some 238,380 people of various nationalities including 350 Western Allied prisoners of war were incarcerated in Buchenwald. An estimated 56 000 people died in the camp. From 1945 to 1950, the camp was used by the Soviet occupation authorities as an internment camp, known as NKVD special camp number 2. Today the remains of Buchenwald serve as a memorial and permanent exhibition and museum. Car park. (CTK Photo/Krystof Kriz)