The Soviets converted Buchenwald into an NKVD Concentration camp after the War.
Yes, about 28,000 prisoners spent time in the Special Camp Nr. 2, as the Soviets renamed it, about 7,000 of them did not survive.
But it was not a workcamp, nor did any of the inmates, or jus a few, ever stand trial. It was like a huge prison, little food, little or no medical attention, all that funš which we know so well from the USSR under Stalin.
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P.S.: until a short while ago, I had no clue thatā¦
There were even, for a time, a number of Soviet Special camps in the territories ceded to Poland (in Toszek/Tost, Opole/Oppeln, in Pila/SchneidemĆ¼hl etc.. one was even in Grudziadz/Graudenz, which had become Polish in 1920). I.e, they were outside the Soviet Occupation Zone.
But, just like those in the SOC, these particular camps were always run by the NKWD, and until December 1945 (or February 1946, for Grudziadz), all these camps in Poland were cleared and the inmates therein were moved to the bigger, and more secure, camps in the SOC.