Buchenwald

VVN - Buchenwald

Documentary about the concentration camp Buchenwald.

Weimar is Near Buchenwald

Shortly before the end of WWII, two young soldiers were murdered directly behind Goethe's garden house in Weimar. The place where our greatest German poets worked was also a place of a concentration camp.

The Bitch of Buchenwald

This documentary details the life and crimes of Ilse Koch, the Nazi woman who became notorious for her monstrous crimes against the prisoners of Buchenwald concentration camp, where her husband was a commander. Accused o

Lost Airmen of Buchenwald

Chronicles the little-known story of Allied airmen imprisoned at the Buchenwald Concentration Camp in the waning months of World War II. In the summer of 1944, 168 airmen from the US, England, Canada and other Allied cou

The Boys of Buchenwald

A "gentle rekindling of the human spirit" brought child survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp out of despair and moved them to create remarkable lives for themselves.

The Secret Depots of Buchenwald

Is there still Nazi loot hidden in buried bunkers on the Buchenwald concentration camp? Historians and scientists try to solve an old mystery.

Holocaust: Ravensbruck and Buchenwald

World War II footage and unpublished photos help to chronicle the Third Reich's atrocities at the Ravensbruck and Buchenwald concentration camps in this revealing documentary. The program exposes the unthinkable practice

Buchenwald - Heldenmythos und Lagerwirklichkeit

After the liberation of Buchenwald, images of children who survived the Nazi concentration camp went around the world. There were over 900 children, many over them under 14 – a rare exception in the murderous camp system

Kinderblock 66: Return to Buchenwald

Kinderblock 66 is the story of four men who, as young boys, were imprisoned by the Nazis in the notorious Buchenwald concentration camp and who, sixty-five years later, return to commemorate the sixty-fifth anniversary o

Fritz Cremer, Creator of the Buchenwald Memorial

This portrait of East German sculptor and graphic artist Fritz Cremer (1906-1993) shows the artist at work in his studio and some of his art works, including sculptures for his Buchenwald Memorial. It accompanies the ima

Den danske nazilæge i Buchenwald

Carl Værnet exposed homosexuals in concentration camps for his experiments. After the war, a new life awaited in Argentina. The family still lives with the past.

Melt into the Background

28 men talk about their captivity in Buchenwald concentration camp. Between 1940 and 1945 500 Dutchmen were murdered by the Nazis there.

"KZ Buchenwald. Aushalten. Wir eilen euch zur Hilfe"

Former inmates and American soldiers remember the cruel conditions in Buchenwald concentration camp.

Histories of the Holocaust:Buchenwald

Contains 2 programs: Buchenwald 1937-1942 and Buchenwald 1942-1945. Every aspect of life within the fences was a torture where mistreatment by the guards was not only encouraged but was compulsory. Herman Pister's instal

The Hike Through the Ancient Beech Forests - UNESCO World Heritage since 2011

Where the old beech forests are almost untouched by human hands, the Jasmund National Park on the island of Rügen is home to a unique piece of untouched nature. It is of such outstanding importance that UNESCO declared i

Naked Among Wolves

Taking place at the Concentration camp Buchenwald at the end of March 1945, prisoner Hans Pippig discovers in a carrying case of an incoming prisoner a Jewish child. If reported the three-year-old is sure to die. On the