germans knew about dachau, but did not care. in buchenwald, there were about 80,000, of whom 34,000 were employed outside the camp in an armaments factory. during the first week of april 25,000 were removed by the germans to other camps because of the approach of the allied forces. when the camp was liberated on april 13th, 20,000 inmates remained. african negroes, albanians austrians, belgians, brazilians, bulgarians, canadians, chinese croats, czechs, danes, french, germans, british, greeks, dutch, italians, yugoslavs, latvians, letts, norwegians, mexicans, poles, rumanians, spaniards, swiss, americans, and russians. 55,000 of them died because of this place. people were tattooed across the belly with slave numbers and forced to work on starvation diet. people were coldly and systematically tortured. here schoker, the camp commandant, said, "i want at least 600 jewish deaths reported in the camp office every day." thugs were appointed as overseers or block leaders. there was no efficient distribution of food. one prisoner coll