Subcamps Portal

In mid-1944, more than half of all inmates at Buchenwald concentration camp were held in subcamps. These stretched from the Rhine and Ruhr in the west to the Elbe in the east. Here you can explore the history of more than 140 subcamps. New Stage component

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What is a Subcamp? The subcamp system of Buchenwald concentration camp

By subcamps, we mean places where the SS housed prisoners for the purposes of forced labour for shorter or longer periods outside the main camp on Ettersberg near Weimar, known at the time as the main camp.

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