Weimar (dpa/th) - After strangers are said to have sled on the grounds of the Buchenwald Memorial near Weimar, the police are looking for witnesses. The tobogganists used a mass grave in the memorial below the bell tower as a sled run, the police said on Tuesday. This is not only prohibited by decency, but also by the house rules of the memorial, it said. The management therefore reported that the peace of the dead had been disturbed. An employee noticed the toboggan tracks on Monday afternoon and informed the memorial site management. According to the police, the tobogganists used the area between Sunday and Monday for their excursion.
As early as January 2021, day trippers are said to have sledded several times at the memorial of the former Nazi concentration camp in Buchenwald, after which the memorial site had increased security precautions.
By shortly before the end of the Second World War, the National Socialists had deported around 280,000 people from all over Europe to the Buchenwald concentration camp, which was set up in 1937, and its satellite camps. More than 56,000 were murdered, died of starvation, disease, medical experiments.
