Word: ettersberg
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Dates: during 1985-1985
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Outside Weimar, near a large Soviet military base, the former Nazi concentration camp of Buchenwald lies on the slopes of the Ettersberg, a desolate memorial to the more than 50,000 prisoners of war, Jews, Slavs, gypsies, political dissidents and other "undesirables" who died there. Two shrunken heads are on display in a glass case, along with a tiny lampshade made of human skin. Vintage loudspeakers, crudely wired to the SS barracks, are silent today, but more than 40 years ago they crackled with symphonic music...
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