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Buchenwald , village, Thuringia, S central Germany, in the Buchenwald forest, near Weimar. It was the site of a large concentration camp established by the National Socialist (Nazi) regime in 1937. It held approximately 20,000 prisoners during World War II.

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Buchenwald a Nazi concentration camp in the Second World War, near the village of Buchenwald in eastern Germany.

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