Buchenwald
E11545
Buchenwald was one of Nazi Germany’s largest and most notorious concentration camps, where tens of thousands of prisoners were subjected to forced labor, brutal conditions, and mass murder during the Holocaust.
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How this entity was disambiguated
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Target entity: Buchenwald Context triple: [Holocaust, notableCamp, Buchenwald]
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Dachau
Dachau was one of Nazi Germany’s first and most infamous concentration camps, serving as a model for the camp system and a site of widespread persecution, forced labor, and mass murder during the Holocaust.
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AuschwitzBirkenau
Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest and most infamous Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, where over a million Jews and other victims were systematically murdered during the Holocaust.
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Majdanek
Majdanek was a Nazi German concentration and extermination camp located near Lublin, Poland, where tens of thousands of Jews and other prisoners were murdered during the Holocaust.
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Landsberg Prison
Landsberg Prison is a Bavarian detention facility best known as the place where Adolf Hitler was incarcerated in 1924 and wrote much of "Mein Kampf."
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Chelmno
Chełmno was a Nazi German extermination camp in occupied Poland where mass killings of Jews and other victims were carried out primarily using gas vans during the Holocaust.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Buchenwald Target entity description: Buchenwald was one of Nazi Germany’s largest and most notorious concentration camps, where tens of thousands of prisoners were subjected to forced labor, brutal conditions, and mass murder during the Holocaust.
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A.
Dachau
Dachau was one of Nazi Germany’s first and most infamous concentration camps, serving as a model for the camp system and a site of widespread persecution, forced labor, and mass murder during the Holocaust.
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B.
AuschwitzBirkenau
Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest and most infamous Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, where over a million Jews and other victims were systematically murdered during the Holocaust.
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C.
Majdanek
Majdanek was a Nazi German concentration and extermination camp located near Lublin, Poland, where tens of thousands of Jews and other prisoners were murdered during the Holocaust.
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Landsberg Prison
Landsberg Prison is a Bavarian detention facility best known as the place where Adolf Hitler was incarcerated in 1924 and wrote much of "Mein Kampf."
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E.
Chelmno
Chełmno was a Nazi German extermination camp in occupied Poland where mass killings of Jews and other victims were carried out primarily using gas vans during the Holocaust.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (73)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nazi concentration camp
ⓘ
forced labor camp ⓘ |
| category |
Holocaust locations in Germany
ⓘ
Nazi concentration camps in Germany ⓘ World War II crimes of Nazi Germany ⓘ |
| closed | 1945 ⓘ |
| commemorates | victims of Nazism ⓘ |
| controlledBy | Nazi Germany ⓘ |
| country | Germany ⓘ |
| establishedBy | SS ⓘ |
| estimatedDeaths | over 56000 ⓘ |
| estimatedPrisoners | over 250000 ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
SS barracks
ⓘ
armaments factories ⓘ crematorium ⓘ quarry ⓘ zoo for SS personnel ⓘ |
| hasSubcamp |
Berga an der Elster subcamp
ⓘ
Gustloff-Werk II subcamp ⓘ Laura subcamp ⓘ Leipzig-Thekla subcamp ⓘ
surface form:
Leipzig-Schönefeld subcamp
Leipzig-Thekla subcamp ⓘ Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp ⓘ
surface form:
Mittelbau-Dora
Ohrdruf subcamp ⓘ Gustloff-Werk II subcamp ⓘ
surface form:
Weimar-Gustloff-Werk subcamp
|
| liberatedBy |
Third United States Army
ⓘ
surface form:
3rd US Army
6th Armored Division ⓘ United States Army ⓘ |
| liberationDate | 1945-04-11 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Thuringia
ⓘ
central Germany ⓘ |
| location | Ettersberg hill near Weimar ⓘ |
| memorialEstablished | 1958 ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | beech forest ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
death marches in early 1945
ⓘ
prisoner resistance organization ⓘ self-liberation efforts by prisoners in April 1945 ⓘ |
| notablePrisoner |
Bruno Bettelheim
ⓘ
Dietrich Bonhoeffer ⓘ Elie Wiesel ⓘ Ernst Thälmann ⓘ Imre Kertész ⓘ Jorge Semprún ⓘ Léon Blum ⓘ Marcel Dassault ⓘ Primo Levi ⓘ Jorge Semprún ⓘ
surface form:
Robert Antelme
|
| notablePrisonerGroup |
French prisoners
ⓘ
German criminals ⓘ JehovahsWitnesses ⓘ
surface form:
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Jews ⓘ Polish prisoners ⓘ Sinti ⓘ
surface form:
Sinti and Roma
Soviet prisoners of war ⓘ Spanish Republicans ⓘ homosexual prisoners ⓘ political prisoners ⓘ |
| opened | 1937 ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1937-07-15 ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
Waffen-SS
ⓘ
surface form:
SS-Totenkopfverbände
Schutzstaffel (SS) ⓘ
surface form:
Schutzstaffel
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| originalName | Konzentrationslager Ettersberg ⓘ |
| partOf |
Nazi camp system
ⓘ
surface form:
Nazi concentration camp system
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| postwarUse |
Soviet special camp
ⓘ
memorial site ⓘ |
| renamed | Buchenwald self-link ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
Buchenwald Trial
ⓘ
Nuremberg trials ⓘ
surface form:
Nuremberg follow-up trials
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| usedFor |
extermination through labor
ⓘ
forced labor ⓘ mass murder ⓘ medical experiments ⓘ political repression ⓘ |
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Subject: Buchenwald Description of subject: Buchenwald was one of Nazi Germany’s largest and most notorious concentration camps, where tens of thousands of prisoners were subjected to forced labor, brutal conditions, and mass murder during the Holocaust.
Referenced by (68)
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