Finally, the Soviets reopened the camps. Buchenwald—rechristened NKVD special camp Nr. 2—was near the city of Weimar, and Saschsenhausen—Nr. 7—a mere thirty-five kilometers from Berlin. Close to two hundred thousand people were rounded up and carted away when the world was still reeling from seeing the images of the Holocaust. Years later over ten thousand bodies would be uncovered at Saschsenhausen alone, the majority of whom were minors and the elderly.
