European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 9, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                When the smoke poured out of the Chimney said the inmate everyone knew what was happening. ,. By Don Tate. Staff writer As fast opens up to West not All the sightseeing is for the Light of heart. This is not on the list of pleasant places to see. There s nothing to shop for Here. You won t feel very festive Here. But unless you Are dead of brain and heart you won t easily forget it. As the tourists sit Down in the Little theater in East Germany the chatter is not much different than in most places before the lights go out and the movie begins. The movie begins. It is a horror movie a documentary. About a concentration Camp. Quot in the beginning just a handful of political prisoners and homosexuals were sent to it Quot intones the narrator Over the thump and blare of Drums and horns the screaming 5/eg heels amid shouted proclamations about the Quot new pure Germany Quot when the movie is Over there is scarcely a t % f it a j s. V sound in the theater. The chitchat levers have dried up. Nothing Light to say. People have difficulty even looking at each other. Quot i had nothing to do with it Quot a big German woman says softly to an american. Quot but. I am ashamed Quot. A a the postal address of the Camp in the movie was Weimar. Weimar was the Home of German humanism of poetic greats Goethe and Schiller of artists philosophers musicians and the highest aspirations of German kind. It was the Home of the Weimar Republic where a Brief Small Light called democracy sputtered out in a dark Rushing wind called Adolf Hitler. Formed in july 1937, this Camp tucked snugly away in the Forest outside Weimar came to be called Buchenwald. The big Camp in the Woods was found to do its Job More efficacious by than a Host of smaller Camps and would serve As a Model for larger slave labor and extermination Camps. The theater the tourists have just left so silently is in one of the yellowed buildings that once housed the nazi is the keepers of Buchenwald a Short walk through the Trees takes the tourist to the Iron gated barbed wire encircled remains of the inner Camp itself. It was t such a Short walk for new arrives Back then however. Met by the is and specially trained dogs Many were whipped and beaten to death with Rifle Butts along the Quot Street of blood Quot before they Ever reached the Camp. In 1938 the first 10,000 jews trudged through the dark Iron Gate with the words Nedem Das Seine a Quot each to his own Quot a inscribed on it. The Quot facilities Quot in the Camp and those assigned to utilize them continued to swell like some out of control malignancy. Except this malignancy was very Well controlled. Russian prisoners of War were dispatched to the Camp. Gypsies were sent in. Quot non aryan Quot Peoples from All Over German occupied Europe were packed in As Well As unpalatable aryan types. As Well As other undesirable elements of the human race jerked up from their lives and marched to their Fate through the dark Iron Gate the inmate count Rose from hundreds to 20,000 to 50,000 to 80,000. By april 1945 some Quarter million people had pondered the meaning of life on the other Side of Nedem Das Seine and in the satellite Camps that came to be called the Buchenwald  in the most evil of empires the food a piece of brow n bread a spot of Margarine and a continued on Page 12 so a ref the Nedem Das Seine Gate and barbed wire Mark the Camp s Boundary. Above a stake to which inmates were tied arid a heavy Wagon loaded with rocks that prisoners had to pull around the compound. Quot i 1 augus stripes