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

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

Scientology leaders announced that Hubbard's body had become an impediment to his work and that he had decided to 'drop his body' to continue his research on another planet, having "learned how to do it without a body".
(24 January 1986)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1991

There are 3388 births, 3954 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2088 other events about 5741 people in 6457 places until today.

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar is an ongoing project since 1985 by DDV.

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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.