- Buchenwald was constructed in 1937. The prisoners themselves were forced to build the camp in which they would stay. The camp was finally opened to only male prisoners in July of 1937.
- Women were not included until late 1943 to early 1944.
- The concentration camp was surrounded by small factories in which many of the Jewish inmates would work.
- The prisoners had to enter the camp through a gate. An inscription above the gate stated, "Jedem Das Seine," or ,"To Each His Own." This inscription is different from the one above the Aushwitz gate that read, "Arbeit Macht Frei," or, "Work Make Freedom."
- This camp did not kill people using gas chambers or crematoria, but by starvation, hard labor, medical experiments, hangings, and lethal injections. This was the major goad of the camp.
