Equating the innocuous border crisis with Nazi Germany dilutes the historic impact of the heinous destruction and slaughter of a people on a mass scale.
WIKI---Buchenwald was one of the first and the largest of the concentration camps on German soil, following Dachau's opening four years earlier. Prisoners from all over Europe and the Soviet UnionJews, Poles and other Slavs, and other prisoners of warworked primarily as forced labor in local armaments factories.
Today the remains of Buchenwald serve as a memorial and permanent exhibition and museum.