Seven trees at the site of the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany that had been planted in memory of Holocaust victims were found chopped down Wednesday by parties unknown, though it’s probably a pretty safe bet that it wasn’t just some landscapers who fucked up, the AP reports.
The foundation that maintains the Buchenwald memorial tweeted they were “appalled at the deliberate attack on remembrance,” and said they had filed a criminal complaint to police. Buchenwald was established in 1937 by the Nazis and held an array of ethnic and political minorities – Jews, Slavs, Roma, Poles, Communists, intellectuals, and people with physical and mental disabilities. Over 56,000 of the 280,000 prisoners held at the site died there – and later by the Soviets – over 7,000 of the 28,000 interned by the Russians died between 1945 and 1950.