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Inmate Housing

Inmates were housed in approximately 50 barracks, which had belonged to the former main camp of Buchenwald Concentration Camp.

Drawing of a stone barrack on squared paper. At the top right, the drawing is labeled "Baracke 28". At the top left is written "Speziallager Buchenwald 1948". The schematic drawing shows a two-winged two-story building, with a two-sided exterior stairway in the center. The windows are small, with grilles indicated in front.
Stone barrack 28, 1948. Drawing: Ernst Herrmann. ©Buchenwald Memorial

There were six rows of one-story wooden barracks as well as three rows of two-story stone barracks. The barracks of the concentration camp's Little Camp were torn down.

At first, inmates were allowed to move about the camp relatively freely. Beginning in 1946 the inmate area was divided into zones separated by barbed wired. The barracks were also fenced in, and grates were added to windows. This reduced the inmates' range of movement to an absolute minimum.

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