Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Weimar, Thüringen, Germany || KZ Buchenwald

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar

One year before his execution while on death row, Babbitt was awarded a Purple Heart medal for the wounds he had received at the Battle of Khe Sanh, Vietnam in 1968. Babbitt refused his last meal and asked that the $50 allotted be given to homeless Vietnam veterans.
(4 May 1999)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1989

There are 3384 births, 3950 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2084 other events about 5737 people in 6452 places until today.

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KZ Buchenwald

Weimar, Thüringen, Germany.

Related events:

Friday 20th of August 1937 (x) — Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (SS) Heinrich Himmler inaugurates the Konzentrationslager.
The camp was to be named K. L. Ettersberg but this was changed to Buchenwald since Ettersberg carried too many associations with Goethe.
Friday 26th of February 1943 (x) — The first transport of Gypsies arrives.
Thursday 5th of April 1945 (-) — SS Standartenführer Karl-Otto Koch is executed by the firing squad.
Koch was sentenced to death for disgracing both himself and the SS. He was the husband of Ilse Koch.
Wednesday 11th of April 1945 (x) — A detachment of troops of the U.S. 9th Armored Infantry Battalion, from the 6th Armored Division, part of the U.S. Third Army arrives at 15:15hrs to liberate the concentration camp.