 According to the records of the Nazi Schutzstaffel (SS) in charge of overseeing the camp, the total number of deaths was 33,462; however, this tabulation does not include prisoners executed before 1944 (euphemistically listed as "transferred to Gestapo"), prisoners who were executed immediately upon arrival at the camp, or mass killings of Soviet prisoners of war.The Buchenwald concentration camp was established in 1937, 10 kilometers from Weimar.The prisoners of the camp were Jews, political prisoners, religious prisoners and prisoners of war.