

Upon arrival at the camp, inmates were registered in the wooden barracks of the "Political Division." Often those who were brought to the camp ended up standing on the
The "Political Division" was overseen by the central office of the Gestapo in Weimar, which was responsible for Buchenwald. It monitored the interactions among inmates through a network of informants and spies. During interrogations they tortured inmates both in the detention cells at the camp gate and in the rooms of the "Political Division."
The Gestapo barracks were destroyed in the Allied air raid on the armament factory and SS complex on August 24, 1944, whereby almost all the inmates' records and Gestapo photos were destroyed by fire.