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Saturday, 23 March 2024, 1 p.m., Information, Buchenwald Memorial
The SS town of Buchenwald was not only home to thousands of SS men - many of them under the age of 20 - in their barracks, but also to the families of the SS leaders. They usually included several children. They led a life of middle-class prosperity. Prisoners worked as domestic servants. The first camp commandant Koch lived in the largest house in the settlement, the so-called Buchenwald House. The estate's air raid shelter was located below the house.
The tour leads to various sites of the SS in Buchenwald that are often overlooked when visiting the memorial: via the "Kommandantenweg" to the "SS-Siedlung I", to the remains of the Falkenhof and the riding hall and finally to the SS zoological garden directly opposite the crematorium.
Tickets: 7 euros, reduced 3 euros
Duration: approx. 2.5 hours
Tickets for the public tours are available at the information desk at the car park. Please buy your ticket at least 15 minutes before the start of the tour. Advance booking is possible by telephone on 03643/745 500 or by email to buchenwaldinfo-weimar@buchenwald.de.
An offer of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation.
Supported by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media on the basis of a resolution of the German Bundestag and with funds from the Free State of Thuringia.
