11 April 1945 A.D. WEIMAR, GERMANY: US 3rd Army Liberates Buchenwald Concentration Camp
11 April 1945 A.D. WEIMAR, GERMANY: US 3 rd Army Liberate Buchenwald Concentration Camp https://thisdayinusmilhist.wordpress.com/2014/04/11/april-11/ 1945 – American Third Army liberates the Buchenwald concentration camp, near Weimar, Germany, a camp that will be judged second only to Auschwitz in the horrors it imposed on its prisoners. As American forces closed in on the Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald, Gestapo headquarters at Weimar telephoned the camp administration to announce that it was sending explosives to blow up any evidence of the camp–including its inmates. What the Gestapo did not know was that the camp administrators had already fled in fear of the Allies. A prisoner answered the phone and informed headquarters that explosives would not be needed, as the camp had already been blown up, which, of course, was not true. The camp held thousands of prisoners, mostly slave laborers. There were no gas chambers, but hundreds, sometimes thousands, died mont...