[1] It was part of a "special camps" network operating since 1945, formally integrated into the Gulag in 1948.
[4] Between August 1945 and the camp's dissolution on March 1, 1950, 28,455 prisoners, including 1,000 women, were held by the Soviet Union at Buchenwald.
A total of 7,113 people died in Special Camp Number 2, according to Soviet records, including Joachim Ernst, Duke of Anhalt.
[7] On January 6, 1950, Soviet Minister of Internal Affairs Sergei Nikiforovich Kruglov ordered all special camps, including Buchenwald, to be handed over to the East German Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Born in tsarist-era Russia as the daughter of a German foundry manager, she was taken into custody due to her fluent Russian.