Memorial stone, Weimar–Buchenwald railway
Memorial stone located on the former Weimar–Buchenwald railway which proceeded the Blutstraße (blood road) on its last kilometers. The ten-kilometre stretch of track between Weimar-Schöndorf and Buchenwald was built by concentration camp inmates within a mere three months. The line initially served the supply needs of the armament factory. Beginning in 1944, inmates – about one hundred thousand in all – were also transported on these tracks, many of them in open freight cars. Boys and men were brought to Buchenwald Concentration Camp from all over Europe and transferred from here to one of the subcamps for forced labour. Photo taken Monday 30 June 2014. Photo: Steffen Mokosch (Steffen.Mokosch@web.de)