he Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation, with more than 80 employees, is the operator of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora memorials as well as the Museum of Forced Labor under National Socialism in Weimar. The foundation's purpose is to promote critical engagement with the crimes committed under National Socialism and their consequences, to preserve the memorials in Weimar and Nordhausen as places of mourning and remembrance of the crimes committed there, to develop them based on scholarly principles, to make them accessible to the public, and to promote education through research and communication of related historical events.

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