Liberators Storming Buchenwald
As the war neared an end the Germans began to get nervous and had the prisoners go on
"death marches" to leave the concentration camps they were in like Auschwitz and
go to Buchenwald. On the marches a lot of prisoners died because they were just too
weak to make the long walks because of their malnutrition. Or they were just shot
by the SS officers for disturbing the line or some other annoyance to them.
However, there was this underground system that went against the orders they were
given. These people helped delay some of the walks which made the prisoners closer to
the US troops when they liberated the camps. Which in result helped the prisoners get help faster. On the morning of April 1945 The prisoners knew that a liberation of
the camp was soon coming. They had, had enough with the officers and their
physical and emotional abuse and they ambushed the watchtowers. In the end the
prisoners got control of the camp and later that day they were liberated. The
liberators were US men from the 6th Armored Division, a section of the Third
Army. When the men arrived there were more than 21,000 men in the camp and
about 904 children, most of them were now orphans. The numbers are not exact
because there are no exact records given. In the end the camp was used for
political prisoners from 1945 to 1950. The freed prisoners then went to
neighboring towns to loot homes to get food and clothes. This is according to one of the
most famous survivors from Buchenwald, Elie Wiesel.
"death marches" to leave the concentration camps they were in like Auschwitz and
go to Buchenwald. On the marches a lot of prisoners died because they were just too
weak to make the long walks because of their malnutrition. Or they were just shot
by the SS officers for disturbing the line or some other annoyance to them.
However, there was this underground system that went against the orders they were
given. These people helped delay some of the walks which made the prisoners closer to
the US troops when they liberated the camps. Which in result helped the prisoners get help faster. On the morning of April 1945 The prisoners knew that a liberation of
the camp was soon coming. They had, had enough with the officers and their
physical and emotional abuse and they ambushed the watchtowers. In the end the
prisoners got control of the camp and later that day they were liberated. The
liberators were US men from the 6th Armored Division, a section of the Third
Army. When the men arrived there were more than 21,000 men in the camp and
about 904 children, most of them were now orphans. The numbers are not exact
because there are no exact records given. In the end the camp was used for
political prisoners from 1945 to 1950. The freed prisoners then went to
neighboring towns to loot homes to get food and clothes. This is according to one of the
most famous survivors from Buchenwald, Elie Wiesel.