Turn left after Marienhöhe – and then always along Blutstrasse: it’s a few minutes’ drive between the Bauhaus Museum in Weimar and the concentration camp in Buchenwald. The Blood Street is a five-kilometer-long path to hell built by prisoners, mostly Jews. From 1938 an old forest road was converted into a concrete runway. Work took place from morning to night, from dusk to dusk. The building materials were brought to the construction site on the shoulders of the prisoners – driven by the beatings of the SS. The tools for the construction? Hands. The starving, soon covered in blood prisoners called the work of their hands: Blood Street.
Exhibitions in Weimar on Bauhaus and National Socialism – Culture
