The Buchenwald concentration camp was established in 1937. More than 56,000 of the 280,000 inmates held at Buchenwald and its satellite camps were killed by the Nazis or died as a result of hunger ...

BERLIN, Germany — The German memorial at former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald Thursday demanded an end to visitors playing winter sports at the site, after some were even spotted sledding ...

Declarations that any criticism of Israel's genocide in Gaza amounts to “antisemitism" and represents an abuse of Holocaust remembrance are assuming increasingly bizarre forms.

In the early spring of 1944 a political prisoner in the Buchenwald concentration camp penned a letter to his wife, Käthe, in Hamburg. “It looks like we have to count on a long separation, but ...

A Viennese engineer worked meticulously in a concentration camp on the world's first pocket calculator. After the war, others profited from his invention. Curt Herzstark's fate seemed to be sealed ...

Obama's trip to Germany has been shrouded in history. First, he visited Dresden, site of one of the most aggressive and controversial bombings of the Allied campaign in WWII.

It was April 11, 1945, when 19-year-old American soldier Abner Ganet stepped inside the barracks guardroom of Buchenwald. The concentration camp was eerily silent. His eyes were drawn to several la… ...

Story Highlights; James Hoyt, three other U.S. soldiers were the first to discover Buchenwald; Hoyt was just 19 at the time: "I saw hearts that had been taken from live people" ...

Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel says he has "high hopes" for Obama. DRESDEN, Germany, June 5, 2009— -- President Obama today made an emotionally charged visit to the Buchenwald Concentration ...

He said he was on a death march about 220 miles from Buchenwald at the time of liberation. His call was among an outpouring of messages since CNN ran a story on Hoyt's August 11 death at age 83 in ...

WEIMAR, Germany — Elderly survivors of Buchenwald laid flowers Sunday and observed a moment of silence for victims of the Nazis, 60 years after U.S. troops liberated the concentration camp ...