'Paul Simon, the painter of Buchenwald': Papers commemorate camp's liberation

'Paul Simon, the painter of Buchenwald': Papers commemorate camp's liberation

PRESS REVIEW – Friday, April 11: Papers react to the news that Chinese nationals are being recruited by Russia on social media to fight in Ukraine. In Israel, hundreds of reservists who denounced the war in Gaza have been fired. Next, the world commemorates the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp by US forces. Le Monde tells the incredible story of the "watercolour painter of Buchenwald". Finally, in Austria, humans teach birds how t…

'Round the Square: Liberation of Buchenwald

LIBERATION: Eighty years ago, on April 11, 1945, U.S. forces liberated Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany.

On April 11, 1945, the concentration camp guards hand over the camp near Weimar to the prisoners. A few hours later, US troops arrive. Heroic self-liberation, as claimed in the SED "Antifascism", did not exist.

The Buchenwald concentration camp was one of the largest concentration camps on German soil. 80 years ago it was liberated. What does commemoration mean in times of rising right-wing extremism?

WEYER. 80 years ago, on April 11, 12 and 13, 1945, in the last weeks of World War II, a total of about 60,000 Hungarian Jews were driven through the Ennstal Valley.

Red Flag: What Does the Liberation of Buchenwald Mean Today?

On April 11, 1945, as U.S. troops approached Buchenwald, the resistance groups inside the concentration camp launched an insurrection. The secret leadership committee, made up of prisoners of different nationalities, handed out weapons to the inmates who proceeded to storm the gate house and the guard towers. Most of the SS guards had fled a few hours earlier — the rest were disarmed. When the U.S. army reached Buchenwald, they found a camp unde…