The catalogue to the new permanent exhibition at the Buchenwald Memorial. The Buchenwald
concentration camp was located less than ten kilometres from the Weimar city centre. Operated
by the SS from 1937 to 1945 it was one of the Nazi regime's most important instruments for the
racist reconstruction of Germany and later of Europe. Every day the inmates had the
inscription in the camp gate - »JEDEM DAS SEINE« (»To Each His Own«) - before their eyes. This
cynical reinterpretation of the expression's original meaning legitimized the ostracism and
violence to which »strangers to the community« were subjected. The new permanent exhibition
analyses what this meant for the more than 270 000 persons deported to Buchenwald. Drawing on
the current state of research based on archival studies carried out worldwide the accompanying
catalogue also presents hitherto unknown historical documents and photos. Fundamental essays by
such notable historians as Ulrich Herbert Frank Bajohr or Johannes Tuchel and a contribution
by the writer and former Buchenwald inmate Ivan Ivanji moreover offer concise discussions of
the Nazi crimes committed in the concentration camps and place them in context.
