@article{DA,
      recid = {1529518},
      author = {James Brothers},
      title = {Close-up of bodies piled in a truck at Buchenwald  Concentration Camp in Weimar, Germany},
      publisher = {University of Southern Indiana},
      address = {1945},
      number = {DA},
      month = {Apr},
      year = {1945},
      abstract = {"SS authorities opened Buchenwald for male prisoners in  July 1937. Women were not part of the Buchenwald camp  system until late 1943 or early 1944. Prisoners were  confined in the northern part of the camp in an area known  as the main camp, while SS guard barracks and the camp  administration compound were located in the southern part.  An electrified barbed-wire fence, watchtowers, and a chain  of sentries outfitted with automatic machine guns,  surrounded the main camp. The detention area, also known as  the Bunker, was located at the entrance to the main camp.  The SS often shot prisoners in the stables and hanged other  prisoners in the crematorium area. Most of the early  inmates at Buchenwald were political prisoners. However, in  1938, in the aftermath of Kristallnacht, German SS and  police sent almost 10,000 Jews to Buchenwald where the camp  authorities subjected them to extraordinarily cruel  treatment upon arrival. 255 of them died as a result of  their initial mistreatment at the camp. Jews and political  prisoners were not the only groups within the Buchenwald  prisoner population, although the �politicals,� given their  long-term presence at the site, played an important role in  the camp's prisoner infrastructure. The SS also interned  recidivist criminals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Roma and Sinti  (Gypsies), and German military deserters at Buchenwald.  Buchenwald was one of the only concentration camps that  held so-called �work-shy� individuals, persons whom the  regime incarcerated as �asocials� because they could not,  or would not, find gainful employment. In the camp's later  stages, the SS also incarcerated prisoners-of-war of  various nations (including the United States), resistance  fighters, prominent former government officials of  German-occupied countries, and foreign forced laborers.  ...Between July 1937 and April 1945, the SS imprisoned some  250,000 persons from all countries of Europe in Buchenwald.  Exact mortality figures for the Buchenwald site can only be  estimated, as camp authorities never registered a  significant number of the prisoners. The SS murdered at  least 56,000 male prisoners in the Buchenwald camp system,  some 11,000 of them Jews."  (https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005198)},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1529518},
}