

After felling trees and laying foundations, the inmates had to assemble normed individual components—originally developed for the Reichs Labour Service—into 28 wooden communal accommodations. These each had common rooms and washrooms, but in Buchenwald they were always hopelessly overfilled. Up to six inmates had to share three-tiered metal bunkbeds.
In 1938/39, below the wooden barracks, three rows of accommodations were built as massive brick constructions, which at least offered better protection from the weather. Below that, the