European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 9, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A amps map continued from Page i bowl of water soup a was just enough to keep inmates staggering along Day to Day in forced labor until they keeled Over. In a few weeks a Strong Man could feel like he was run Over by a famine. A it was not uncommon for an inmate to lose half his body weight and still be sent out to work in the Quarry until he was a trembling Frame of collapsing Bones. Illness was no excuse. Starving was no excuse. Quot each to his own Quot mocked the words on the Gate. They stood outside in and dropped dead in formations that sometimes went on for 18 hours in bitter Snow and rain in Roll Call Square. They slept squeezed together in less than King size Beds a Barrack that had once stabled 80 horses later housed 1,200 inmates sleeping five to a bunk. If sickness and starvation and general brutality did t bring an inmate Down in the death factory he might find himself a candidate for Block 46 medical experiments injected with typhoid or cholera germs burned to the Bone with drops of phosphorous have his head shrunk be dismembered dissected and otherwise doctored on for the advancement of scientific nazi Dom. In another horror House being tortured to death by the s3 was not uncommon. Quot if they took you in that holding Quot says a guide. Pointing to a Low Jeny Stone building by the Gate Quot it was a you did t come out . Y being dispatched to the Gallows in mass hangings was not uncommon either or to the gassing vans. Or being taken in for a medical exam sat on a table and 1 hot in the neck through a Slit in the examining room Wall. Or being Strung up dangling from a 20-foot stake with your hands chained behind you until your Bones cracked. How to die in Buchenwald let them count the ways. By some courts As Many As 100,000 corpses were fed to the Camp crematoriums hundreds of lives a Clay going up in smoke. When the is ran out of Coal they stacked the bodies in rows like cordwood. It got so crowded that in the first three months of 1945 the is recorded 13,056 deaths. Some of the records Are still there neatly stamped and signed. The concentration Camp nazis liked to make lists to show How Otti client they were. They were also very keen on meeting liquidation quotas showing great sensitivity to their superiors demands to Butcher More faster. They were also extremely number conscious sometimes tattooing an inmate s number not Only on his Arm but on his forehead and even his belly. Among is guards there were Odd types. Like the specimen who could beat a human being to death with a smile on his face and cry like a baby when his Canary died. Descriptions of Grey uniformed Jack booked women staffers included Quot a great flopping fat Middle aged woman who liked to kick her fellow females to death women whose faces showed obvious Marks of cruelty others showing merely the callousness of animal stupidity and half a dozen trim Alert Young women handsome in. The Way some nazi Young men Are handsome with hysterical magnetized  Quot i wonder which was worst a communist Camps or these sobs Quot mutters a tourist. Quot maybe some communists came Here to feel Good about themselves Quot says another. On april 13 elements of the Amedean 3rd army moved in and some of the things they saw Quot beg Gared the  prisoners hardly Able to stand walking cadavers in striped cloth with Skull like faces that seemed to move on poles clustered weak around the first americans. A few fell dead Evert As they tried to explain what had brought them to this condition. In one Buie pm g so Many ravaged people Lay naked on the floor that it was difficult to Tell the barely breathing from the. Finally dead. War correspondent Edward r. Murrow wrote Quot the stink was beyond description. As we walked into the courtyard a Man fell dead. Two others were crawling on the ground. ,. We went to the Hospital. It was full. The doctor told me that 200 had died the Day before. Starvation tuberculosis fatigue and Many with jul t no desire to  soon after liberation a thousand of the citizens of  taken to the Camp and led past heaps of stiff and naked bodies. Several of the women reportedly wept and fainted at the sight of half Burnt people stuffed into the ovens where the is made frantic efforts to dispose of the evidence before the americans arrived. Quot we did t want that we did t know Quot some of the viewers from Weimar protested. Others still did t get it. Rosalind von Schirach the sister of a former Leader of the Hitler youth movement was quoted As saying Quot this barbarity has thrown Germany Back into the dark age Quot but Hitler her Fuhrer she still insisted was Quot a great and Good  her 70-year-old father Karl a theatrical producer added his bit of insight Quot Hitler could not have known such barbarities were being committed. I know the Fuhrer. He came to see me in 1935 and he was so polite kind and cultured and took such a great interest in dramatic Art. That i am convinced he is Man of great  Many of the buildings including prison blocks were burned by the 55 As the allies approached but there is still enough there including a museum full of reminders from those Days for the most casual tourist to get the message. Suddenly a Quot Achung Achung Quot a voice rasps Over a Loudspeaker near the Iron Gale. It is closing time. With the Sun going Down visitors Are urged to leave the inner Camp before the Gate is locked. There is How Ever a Small hotel in the former is administration building for those who might wish to stay overnight at Buchenwald. Lew do. A amps photos by Ken George 12 stripes Magazine August 9, 1990 clockwise from top left an exhibit on the mass hangings that occurred of tie concentration Camp the building be find the barbed wire hit now houses the Buchenwald museum the crematorium built in 19w Barracks bedding and a guardhouse along tit Fence