Remains of Inmates' camp

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Most of the prisoners' barracks were long, low wooden buildings like the reconstructed building shown in the photo above. It is located in the northwest corner of the camp, so far down the slope from the gate house that few tourists bother to visit it. There were more than 30 of these wooden barrack buildings, each of them accommodating between 180 and 250 prisoners. These buildings, which were called "blocks," measured 53 meters long by 8 meters wide. There were also 15 two-story brick barrack buildings in the camp, which were completed by the autumn of 1939.
All of the camp barracks were torn down in the early 1950s. Their locations were marked by stones bearing the corresponding block numbers, their ground plans by copper slag. A former inmates' infirmary office barrack which was in use in a small town of Thuringia until 1993 was re-erected in Buchenwald in 1994.