Talk:List of subcamps of Buchenwald

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I have spend from 29 January 1945 to 4 April in Wansleben Labour Camp with 400 girls of different Nationalities. To clear Elli's whereabouts by the end of the war, it is quite possible that he was in Buchenwald by then, because people were shifted to different localities, as the SS tried to escape with the prisoners. They were death marches, because prisoners were to weak to walk far.

After I had been released from Wansleben, all Jewish prisoners were shifted from Wansleben. The SS did not wanted them, nor the prisoners to be found by the Allies. Eventually the SS guards fled and left the prisoners by them selves, but managed to march some to the western camps like Buchenwald for instance. This could be the confusion about the photo.

I am writing at the moment an article I have been asked to write by Americans, because they don't know much what was going on in Germany after the war. I wrote about the refugee situation, their hardships from East to West, being chased by Russian troops, and unsufficient shelter in the icy cold wheather, arriving in mid-Germany. Hitler's punishment of German people: he willed every German to die, because, as he said, they were not worthy of him. He had ordered everyone, men, women and children to attack and fight the "enemy." Of course no-one did. I also would like to point at something else. The bitter seemingly uncaring faces of the Germans when they were taken to Buchenwald, was a reaction of disbelief and fright. They really thought that they were to be killed as predicted by Hitler.

I have talked to Nazi women just after the war ended, to get their reaction, but they just would not believe me when I told them where I had been. Imagine the shock those people felt when being brought to Buchenwald. Those misguided people had looked up on Hitler as a God, and did not know how to react when seeing the horrific conditions in the camp. My former workmate had been taken too to see it and had screeming fits. She had to be admitted to a Sanatorium. After her 6 weeks stay, she was reluctantly released and came to see me to tell me about her experiences.

I went went back to Wansleben in 1992 to hear about the villagers reactions. I found that they had nursed many camp inmates back to health and had buried dead ones who had been under their care, still looking after the graves now. By the Lord Mayor, of Wansleben, I have been shown a file with thankyou letters from Poles, who had been cared for in the village. I found only one person who would talk to me. Others had been through so much that they did not want to be reminded about it. Living near a camp, seeing skelettons marching daily by, they felt terrible not being able to help then, unless they wanted to join them. There must have been other villages near camps who undertook the care of the sick inmates after the war--77.102.120.183 (talk) 14:36, 18 January 2009 (UTC)Gisela Cooper 18.January,2009[reply]

I think it is time that those facts are made known too.

Gisi

Köln-Deutz[edit]

Hello, there was a second camp in Deutz, after Operation Valkyre. Political enemies all around have been taken into that speciall part like Konrad Adenauer, Eugen Zander (the section Kapo of it) and Joseph Roth from August 1944 till October 1944. Greetings, Josef Josef Roth (talk) 16:46, 18 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]