1938/05/21 – Deutschland Buchenwald Einlieferung Josef Köhler

21 May 1938

Josef Köhler is sent to Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany at the instigation of the Gestapo in Kassel. He is the first Sinto known by name to be documented in the camp, which was established near Weimar in July 1937.

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Aktion Arbeitsscheu Reich (Operation Workshy)

Buchenwald

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