US forces reached Buchenwald while organised prisoners took control as SS authority collapsed. Sinti and Roma had been confined in the camp and its forced-labour network. Liberation ended imprisonment for those still there, while evacuation marches and deaths elsewhere continued. The event belongs to a dispersed chronology of liberation rather than a single date of safety for all survivors.
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Which forces reached Buchenwald on 11 April 1945?
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The memorial documents the US advance and prisoners taking control of the camp.
Buchenwald was liberated on 11 April 1945.
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The memorial documents the US advance and prisoners taking control of the camp.