SS area

 concentration camp, historical layer / disappeared object

SS barracks complex was close to the main camp and consisted of sixteen buildings are located a half-circle (Hundertschaftsgebäude). The committee also included the building of a casino, armories, military hospital in the SS, the rifle and the parade ground, garages and two gas stations. The complex was designed by more than one staff Standarte and used as a training base compounds of the SS "Totenkopf" (later the Waffen SS).
Memorial Site on the grounds of the former concentration camp. The four yellow buildings are barracks where the SS guards lived when Buchenwald was a prison camp for political prisoners.
In the middle of the four SS barracks is a space where a fifth building was torn down. These SS barracks were built between 1937 and 1939; the parking lot is the former SS parade ground. There were originally 18 of the barracks, arranged in a semi-circle around the parade ground; each barrack housed 100 SS men. One of the former SS barrack buildings has been turned into a youth hostel with accommodations for 35 people.
SS stands for Shutzstaffel, the name for the elite soldiers who were originally Hitler's body guards, but later became the concentration camp guards. There was another group called the Waffen SS, which fought in battle in separate divisions from the Wehrmacht, the regular German Army. The SS wore black uniforms and a death's head or skull emblem on their caps.