German people who died in Buchenwald concentration camp

German communist politician, leader of Communist Party of Germany (1886–1944)

Karl-Otto Koch was a German military officer who was a mid-ranking commander in the Schutzstaffel (SS) of Nazi Germany, and the first commandant of the Nazi concentration camps at Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen. From September 1941 until August 1942, he served as the first commandant of the Majdanek concentration camp in German-occupied Poland, stealing vast amounts of valuables and money from murdered Jews. His wife, Ilse Koch, also participated in the crimes at Buchenwald.

German Nazi leader (1895-1945)

Prussian pastor (1897-1939)

German officer (1883-1945)

Luftwaffe general (1903–1948)

German politician (1874–1944)

German resistance fighter (1900–1942)

German politician (1895-1940)

German politician (1881–1940)

German politician (1889-1944)

German lawyer and resistance member (1905-1941)

German politician (1892-1941)

German Jewish merchant, Holocaust victim, and adoptive father of Magda Goebbels

German journalist and politician (1891-1939)

German artist (1908-1939)

German politician (1898-1944)