Interesting photo from KZ Buchenwald

[skalphunter]

For me interesting photo from KZ Buchenwald. skalp

[Dean Perdue]

Interesting for sure.
What a beautifully done carving. Sugar coating is the phrase that comes to mind.

[Dmv]

indeed the (in-)famous sign

[skalphunter]

Left are Soldiers (direction SS barracks) and right is a Policemann with a stick and in front of him priests and i guess the one on the far right could be a jew.
skalp

[Geoff Walden]

I believe this sign marked the Karacho-Weg (also spelled Caracho).

[mac-apple]

The Dachau sign like it is much worse!!! They made 2 different postcards with the image..

[carltiger]

There were actually three similar markers at Dachau. One was made of wood and stood at Reichsschatzmeister-Schwarz-Platz (known today as John-F-Kennedy-Platz).

The post featured in the well known image taken at Dachau was integrated into the outer wall of the larger camp zone - not the boundary of the Häftlingslager (prisoner camp) and almost 1km from the actual KZ. It directed east - toward the main camp entrance. The other directed towards the western entrance and the SS drill area.

I was asked recently if any form of the signs at Dachau is extent, but no, the grounds of the Bavarian Riot Police now cover the former area in question, as indeed they have done for some time. Prior to their presence, US forces occupied the zone of interest post war. The wall which had the sign post is incomplete today and the sign is missing.

The image was taken by SS photographer Friedrich Franz Bauer, during the visit of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, Stellvertreter des Führers (the Führer's Deputy) Rudolf Heß and Himmler's chief adjutant Karl Wolff.

[carltiger]

The Buchenwald sign shown by member Skalphunter, was carved by prisoner Bruno Apitz. Just out of shot, to the left of the sign, was a bus stop for the Weimar-Buchenwald connection Kraftomnibuslinie Weimar-Buchenwald.